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Student awareness of costs and benefits of educational decisions : effects of an information campaign and media exposure

McGuigan, Martin; McNally, Sandra; Wyness, Gill - 2014

in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … financial barriers to university participation, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. …

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Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?

Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Benecchi, Andrea; Malley, … - 2017

allocation. Our results suggest that training subsidies for the unskilled have a significant impact on the labour income of … unskilled workers. These subsides also increase earnings for skilled workers and raise aggregate income with implied lifetime …

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Which ladder to climb? : wages of workers by job, plant, and education

Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018

Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both life-cycle facts to one driving force: some workers progress in hierarchy to jobs with more responsibility, complexity, and independence. In short, they climb the career ladder....

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How risky is college investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor … develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college … predict whether they will graduate with at least 80% probability. As a result, stylized policies that insure students against …

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Alcohol use, human capital, and wages

Bray, Jeremy W. - In: Journal of labor economics 23 (2005) 2, pp. 279-312

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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The private and fiscal returns to schooling and the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education : a general framework and some results for the EU

Fuente, Ángel de la (contributor); … - 2005

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these...

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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

rate versus just the steady-state income level - matters less than academic discussions suggest. We close by discussing …

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Educational attainment and the changing US wage structure : dynamic implications on young individuals' choices

Buchinsky, Moshe; Leslie, Phillip - In: Journal of labor economics 28 (2010) 3, pp. 541-594

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Optimal taxation of human capital and the earnings function

Jacobs, Bas (contributor); Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor) - 2008

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