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(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo. We examine firsthand data from the 2009 Congo's Employment and Informal Sector Survey (Enquête sur l’emploi et le secteur...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the return to multiple language usage in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – This article aims to estimate the effect that using an additional language at work has on earnings for a sample of workers in the European Community...
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The process of economic integration over the past two decades has been accompanied by an expanding income wedge between …
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We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing …-based allocation of students into schools and an adapted regression discontinuity design strategy, we find that admission substantially … increases learning achievement, and also the future earnings and returns students expect from a college education, but no effect …
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parents are present in the same household. The IV estimates based on these selective sub-samples may be inconsistent, even … particularly worrisome, suggesting that the previous IV results are robust. In particular, using China Household Income Project …
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between an individual's educational attainment, sector, and income. We find that about 11% of aggregate growth in output per …
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Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...
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the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
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This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...
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