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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 … parameters. We find a robust, significant and negative impact of the delay variable on wages, averaged over the first five years …
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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 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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This study examines the extent to which the transition from university education to work is characterized by persistent hiring flows between university faculties and firms, rather than being characterized by an open market process. Using a specially devised metric, I find that more than one-half...
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later helped overcome the budget crisis. The positive revenue effect of higher wages and higher tax rates could not … ascribed to the excessive wage recovery of late 1990 and 1991. Insiders set wages ignoring the unemployed and exploiting the …
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rapid increase in the proportion of college graduates in the US labour-force may have been causal in both the decline in the …
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variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
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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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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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, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy, we evaluate the …
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