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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …

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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data

Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat). We use a consistent estimator to address the two...

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets

Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...

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Head start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes

Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin - 2016

In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...

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Head start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes

Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin - 2016

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …

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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages : does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a lower risk of overqualification. However, it is unclear whether we can interpret the effect of STEM subjects on overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2003

Using data for the 1990 ?s,this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan.Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50%of the total returns to schooling.We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...

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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods within countries. It uses the Over … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants …

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