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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 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...

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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...

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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … study examines the sectoral and economic composition of SEZ activities in India. It finds that labour intensive, skill … intensive and technology intensive firms co exist in India's zones and, therefore argues that all the three effects described …

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Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education

Katz, Eliakim; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001

We explore the relation between variability in the rate of return to human capital and investment in education in the context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to human capital can induce residents of developing...

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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème": Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

, and the contribution of the Indian diaspora to the rise of the IT sector in India. While the three case studies concern … to putting India on the IT global map, and mixed in the case of the medical brain drain out of Africa. …

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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden: The impact of skill mismatch

Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - 2006

We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less...

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Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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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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The effects of school entry laws on educational attainment and starting wages in an early tracking system

Zweimüller, Martina - 2013

Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date, has a causal effect on track choice. Using a sample of male labor market entrants drawn from Austrian register data, I analyze whether the initial assignment to different school...

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