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Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Do Smart Parents Raise Smart Children? The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities

Anger, Silke; Heineck, Guido - 2009

Complementing prior research on income mobility and educational transmission, we provide evidence on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our estimates suggest that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to...

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Dropout trends and educational reforms: The role of the LOGSE in Spain

Felgueroso, Florentino; Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-24

Over the last 50 years, some important reforms in European countries were aimed at improving the system of vocational … studies. By contrast, the Spanish educational law (LOGSE) from 1990 moved in the opposite direction. While the LOGSE increased … the number of compulsory schooling years from 8 to 10, it also eliminated vocational studies of first grade (FP-I, ages 14 …

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Wage returns to mid-career investments in job training through employer supported course enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching...

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On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters

Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare results on the importance of non-cognitive skills across literatures. Drawing from these literatures,...

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Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - 2017

Two common hypotheses regarding the relative benefits of vocational versus general education are (1) that vocational …

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Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Weinstein, Russell - 2017

I study whether human capital investments are based on local rather than national demand, and whether this is explained by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks with differential local effects, including the dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, and a...

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The Demand for Teacher Characteristics in the Market for Child Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Boyd-Swan, Casey; Herbst, Chris M. - 2017

Many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend center-based child care programs that are of low quality. This paper examines the extent to which teacher qualifications widely considered important inputs to classroom quality are valued by providers during the hiring process. To do so, we...

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A stylized satellite account for human capital

Liu, Gang - 2015

This paper presents a satellite account in which investment in human capital is considered as a produced product/asset. It is not the education sector but the individual person taking education or training/courses that is the genuine producer of human capital. The former only provides education...

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Immigrants Move Where Their Skills Are Scarce: Evidence from English Proficiency

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2018

This paper studies whether individuals tend to migrate to countries where their skills are scarce or abundant. Focusing on English language skills, we test whether immigrants who are proficient in English choose to move to countries where many or few individuals speak English. We use the...

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