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We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3 …-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during …
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How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform …
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This research examines how the earnings structure in the Czech Republic and Slovakia changed after the collapse of … earnings increases. Returns to experience fell. Earnings structure changes appear to have been larger in the Czech Republic …
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How valuable are the education and skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This paper uses data for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998, to throw light on this question. We find that returns to schooling reach 10 percent early on and remain at this high level....
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the U.S. Early analyses of skill-related differences compared the earnings of workers across occupations. The general … the supply of high-school graduates relative to the increased demand for skilled workers is the likely explanation …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late …
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distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages …. Definition and measurement problems are of paramount importance in analyses of this kind, and so a large part of the chapter is …
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. Our discussion emphasizes the complex measurement issues associated with firm training and the interplay of applied theory …
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margin of the four-year sector versus those who would fall back to another four-year school if rejected. Substantially larger …
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This study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast pace and the share of university graduates in...
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Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...
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