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Does Speed Signal Ability? The Impact of Grade Repetitions on Employment and Wages

Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

which log-wages are explained by two endogenous variables: the student's degree and the student's time to degree, not simply … by years of education. Log-wages are regressed on a measure of education, which is a position on a scale of certificates … the average school-leaving age of students holding the same certificate or degree. We use past school-opening instruments …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the … supply of educated natives have significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British crosssectional … micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers a resolution to this puzzle …

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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...

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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

productivity of skilled workers. An implication of this theory is that when the relative supply of skilled workers increases …

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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 … variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G; Gong, Xiaodong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

depend directly on the elasticity of labour supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem … model of working hours, wages and years of schooling, and find empirical support for the main predictions of the model. …

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Firm Entry Deregulation, Competition and Returns to Education and Skill

Fernandes, Ana; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of firm entry deregulation. We exploit a recent reform that simplified business entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the reform for identification. Using matched employer-employee...

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The Education, Labour Market and Health Consequences of Child Labour

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H; Gatti, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy, we evaluate the …

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas; Dross, Patrick J; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using data for the 1990s, this Paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...

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