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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005

Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...

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Education and Wage Inequality in Portugal

Budria, Santiago; Nunes, Celso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...

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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity

mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...

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Timing of Earnings and Capital Structure

Miglo, Anton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

signalling theory point of view. The paper also contributes to the analysis of the link between debt-equity choice and subsequent …

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The Signaling Role of Note Being Promoted: Theory and Evidence

Jin, Xin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article studies the negative signals associated with non-promotion. I first show theoretically that, when workers’ productivity rises little with additional years on the same job level, the negative signal associated with non-promotion leads to wage decreases. On the other hand, when...

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Inventory Signals

Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

also provide empirical evidence for this theory that inventory has a signaling role. The theory could potentially provide a …

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Education, Signaling, and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Economy

Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

but also because it functions as a signal when employers have incomplete information on employees' skills. The signaling … number of educated individuals, the importance of the signaling value of education, and the wage inequality between educated … function as a signal. It also examines whether the signaling role leads to higher aggregate consumption or not in the long run. …

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“Brand” and performance in a new environment: Analysis of the law school market in Japan.

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Using Japanese panel data for 2006-2009, this study attempts to examine how the pass rate of law school student taking the new bar examination influences the number of applicants for the law school in the following years. The major finding is that the higher the law school student pass rate, the...

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“Brand” and performance in a new environment: Analysis of the law school market in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Using Japanese panel data for 2006-2009, this study attempts to examine how the pass rate of law school students taking the new bar examination influences the number of applicants for the law school in the following years. The major finding is that the higher the law school student pass rate,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611587

Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?

Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014

I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...

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