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The Effect of Changes in the Statutory Minimum Working Age on Educational, Labor and Health Outcomes

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vall-Castello, Judit; del Rey, … - 2015

In this paper we explore the effects of a labor market reform that changed the statutory minimum working age in Spain in 1980. In particular, the reform raised the statutory minimum working age from 14 to 16 years old, while the minimum age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until...

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More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017

little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … 1972 increase in compulsory schooling on earnings volatility over the life cycle. Our estimates suggest that men exposed to … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men. …

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Signaling Effects on the Labor Market: Winners and Losers of University Licensing in a Higher Education Reform

Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo; Armas, Joaquin; … - 2024

We investigate the effects of a higher education reform on the labor market outcomes of college graduates in Peru. The cornerstone of this piece of legislation was a licensing process whereby a newly created higher education superintendency evaluated every existing university on minimum quality...

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Money Counts, but So Does Timing: Public Investment and Adult Competencies

Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jo - 2017

Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...

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Compulsory Class Attendance versus Autonomy

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2021

Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education requires a solid grasp of the impact of student autonomy on learning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of an increased autonomy policy for higher-performing students on short- and longer-term school outcomes. We exploit an...

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A second chance at education for early school leavers

Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2012

Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline the importance of programs that encourage early school leavers to return to post-school...

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The Scarring Effect of Graduate Underemployment: Evidence from the UK

Dickson, Matt; Donnelly, Michael; Kameshwara, Kalyan Kumar - 2024

The UK has one of the highest proportions of tertiary educated workers in Europe but also one of the highest rates of graduate underemployment. Little is known however about the extent to which there is a scarring effect of early graduate underemployment on future labour market outcomes. In this...

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Real wage inequality

Moretti, Enrico - 2008

A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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Time preferences and lifetime outcomes

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - 2013

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …

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