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Birth Order and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Education

Ejrnaes, Mette; Pörtner, Claus C. - 2004

order on both number of hours in school during education and completed education. The results for both are consistent with …

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010

Gasparini, Leonardo - 2012

secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent. Concurrently, returns to secondary education completion fell throughout the … past two decades, while the 2000s saw a reversal in the increase in the returns to tertiary education experienced in the … could favor the unskilled (non-tertiary educated) workforce, although employment patterns by sector suggest that other …

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The Effect of Grade Retention on Child Test Scores

Bhattacharya, Samrat - 2007

Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Child Survey. Using a difference-in-difference propensity score matching …

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Ugly Criminals

Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...

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Understanding Out-of-Work and Out-of-School Youth in Europe and Central Asia

Mauro, Joseph - 2015

Employment, Education or Training). This study attempts to characterize the NEETs by age, gender, education and their activity …Objectives: The objectives of this study are to describe and analyze the out-of-work and out-of-school youth (ages 15 … findings of this study are listed below. First, we find that in the post-2009 period the youth NEET rate for the ECA region was …

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Education and Youth Economic Participation in Argentina. An analysis of its determinants (2004-2009)

Groisman, Fernando; Calero, Analía V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

member in a registered job on both the school attendance and the economic inactivity of youth. …

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Sector Surcharges for Temporary Agency Workers in Germany: A Way Out of the Low-Wage Sector?

Spermann, Alexander - 2013

sustainable employment and draws conclusions for the precarious work discussion. It turns out that these new surcharges allow …

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) March, pp. 1-10

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …

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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015

importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey … and men's employment, however, childhood homelessness continues to have a substantial direct effect on male employment …

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?

Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

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