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The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
Chiswick, Barry R.; Huang, Jidong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
variables have similar effects for Jews and the general population. Jewish day schooling as a youth enhances earnings. Earnings … vary by denomination, with Conservative Jews earning the most. The effect on earnings of religiosity (measured by synagogue …
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299919
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The earnings of American Jewish men : human capital, denomination and religiosity
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Huang, Jidong (contributor) - 2006 - Rev
variables have similar effects for Jews and the general population. Jewish day schooling as a youth enhances earnings. Earnings … vary by denomination, with Conservative Jews earning the most. The effect on earnings of religiosity (measured by synagogue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373401
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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116308
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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument
Winters, John V. - 2014
Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023737
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The returns to schooling unveiled
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker is (worker unobserved ability), what he does (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819808
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Estimating occupation- and location-specific wages over the life cycle
Ilin, Elias; Terry, Ellyn - 2021
In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the … Statistics data for each occupation and area. Finally, we develop a model capable of projecting the trajectory of wages across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544306