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Age, Education and Occupational Earnings Inequality

Wolff, Edward N. - 1976

In this paper, we will investigate the effect of six factors on occupational earnings inequality across all occupations in our sample and across occupations in five major Census subgroups. Those six factors are: differences in tasks, different levels of efficiency, institutional factors, time...

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Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited

Card, David - 1994

This paper presents a survey and interpretation of recent research on the return to education. The empirical findings … in a series of current papers suggest that the causal effect of education on earnings is understated by standard …

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

century was characterized by low investments in height and education, a small correlation between height and education, and … positive but small returns for both height and education. The relationship between height and education was stronger in the … twentieth century and stronger in the first part of the twentieth century than later on (when both investments in education and …

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Educational Inequality

Azuma, Yoshiaki - 2001

This paper develops a theoretical model that relates changes in educational inequality to the combined effects of innovations that have increased the relative demand for more educated labor and innovations that have increased ability premiums. Under the assumption that in the long run individual...

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Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work

Barth, Erling - 2016

employer characteristics that most impact earnings are: number of workers, education of co-workers, capital equipment per …

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The Option Value of Human Capital : Higher Education and Wage Inequality

Lee, Sang Yoon - 2015

college education that mitigate this risk: (i) college students can quit without completing four-year degrees after learning … education …

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Sex-Based Differences in School Content and the Male/Female Wage Gap

Brown, Charles - 1996

In high school and in college, men and women take significantly different courses. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the National Longitudinal Study Class of 1972, we relate these differences in school content to sex differences in adult wages. Differences in...

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The Race Between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Heckman, James J. - 2018

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...

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Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes : Implications for Earnings and Income Inequality in Canada

Warman, Casey - 2015

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of … university education. Controlling for education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided …

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