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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education : Simulation Based Evidence

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2021

This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...

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Immigrant Earnings : A Longitudinal Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew L.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the immigrant adjustment model, which incorporates both the...

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Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods within countries. It uses the Over-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new...

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer's contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...

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Four empirical essays on human capital and labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem Asres - 2017

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Fiscal and individual rates of return to university education with and without graduation

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Stichnoth, Holger - 2020

internal rate of return (IRR) of 14.2% for gross earnings, 7.4% for disposable income, and 6.6% for the net fiscal contribution … found to have negative IRRs: -0.5% for gross earnings and -5.9% for both disposable income and the net fiscal contribution … per student, and the level of income tax payments. …

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers

Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018

The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....

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Distributional Effects of the High School Degree in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Maier, Michael F.; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018

statistically not differ from zero. This suggests that the selection of students into grammer schools might have been too …

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Immigrant Earnings : A Longitudinal Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew L.; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

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