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The impact of education and occupation on temporary and permanent work incapacity
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work … contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289962
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work … contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889998
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291780
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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 … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training … Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and limited labor market experience enjoy higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262515
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Risky human capital investment, income distribution, and macroeconomic dynamics
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It demonstrates how the role of the personal income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261651
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274183
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Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274184
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Can democracy educate a society?
Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2005
rules fail to educate a society, because education-enhancing redistribution will not occur. We show that a combination of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276653
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
schooling databases. Contrary to a few recent papers that have identified significant nonlinearities between education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291365
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Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
schooling databases. Contrary to a few recent papers that have identified significant nonlinearities between education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766381