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, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
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Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
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-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …
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-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …
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-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …
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The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …
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The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …
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Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …
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