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Talking About the Pigou Paradox : Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2011
-educational background of university graduates. Parents' educational level seems to be the main determinant of the probability to get a …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119298
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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies : An Empirical Approach
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal - 2020
Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin American Economies (Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico). We use a multinomial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838497
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Intergenerational Mobility : An Assessment for Latin American Countries
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal - 2019
This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and … have a stagnant economy coupled with high income inequality. Our rich and detailed dataset, the IPUMS survey data bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870168
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'I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …' - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally representative School-to-Work Transition survey carried out in 2006 in Mongolia, one of the 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091134
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Overeducation Wage Penalty Among Ph.D. Holders : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio - 2018
The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being mismatched at the mean of the conditional wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926726
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Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus : Evidence from India
Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Dr.Sanghamitra - 2017
In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940848
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Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test
Liwinski, Jacek - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942083
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Updates on Returns to Education in India : Analysis Using PLFs 2018-19 Data
Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
in other low- middle-income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083923
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Overeducation at a Glance : Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the Almalaurea Data
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2013
.4 and 8% – when compared to EU economies. Ceteris paribus they tend to be more frequent among children of parents with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071750
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Does Vocational Education Pay Better, or Worse, than Academic Education?
Pastore, Francesco; Chen, Jie - 2021
In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data to analyse the returns to upper secondary vocational education in China. To address possible endogeneity of vocational training due to omitted heterogeneity, we construct a novel instrumental variable using the proportion of tertiary...
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