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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019

status. The multinomial equation that explains labour market status allows for a different effect of language knowledge on …

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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants[...] …

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...

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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country: The case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data … from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey …. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of language knowledge, with a special focus on a country …

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Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; van Veldhuizen, Roel; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes

Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022

Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...

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Are Women in Science Less Ambitious than Men? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender and STEM in Promotion Applications

Süer, Müge - 2023

The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits can be found in supply-side behavioral differences in promotion applications. In this study, using a controlled lab experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study,...

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Language proficiency and homeownership: Evidence from U.S. immigrants

Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Voss, Simon - 2023

In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency … and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on … capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

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Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function – physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology – together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon...

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