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Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2013

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … - which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages - circumvents the reflection problem and … contrast, we find larger peer effects, about half the size of those identified in similar studies on productivity. …

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Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives

Nieto, Sandra; Matano, Alessia; Ramos, Raul - 2013

The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...

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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple … distribution of abilities in the population and on the marginal contribution of each ability type to individual productivity. It is …

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An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...

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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Lucifora, Claudio; Comi, Simona; Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...

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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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