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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...

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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germansʺ). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...

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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...

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Social comparisons in oligopsony

Goerke, Laszlo; Neugart, Michael - 2017

A large body of evidence suggests that social comparisons matter for workers' valuation of the wage they receive. The consequences of social comparisons in imperfectly competitive labor markets are less well understood. We analyze an oligopsonistic model of the labor market where workers derive...

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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012

Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...

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Vocational high school graduate wage gap : the role of cognitive skills and firms

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro S.; Reis, Hugo - 2018

Comparing cohorts born between 1951 and 1994, we document and interpret changes in the wage differential among graduates from secondary education with a vocational and a general curriculum.. The wage gap initially increased and then decreased. We find that these changes cannot be attributed to...

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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022

features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … end of high school. Lucky students take exams in subjects they are better at, and we show that this generates significant …

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Quantifying the role of firms in intergenerational mobility

Castro Dobbin, Cauê de; Zohar, Tom - 2023

We investigate the role of firms in intergenerational mobility by decomposing the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) into firm-IGE and individual-IGE using a two-way fixed effects framework. Using data from Israel, we find that the firm component is responsible for 22% of the overall...

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