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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...

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The effect of in-service teacher training on student learning of english as a second language

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Li, Xia - 2014

In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...

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Human capital potential of India's future workforce

Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015

. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …

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Specific human capital and skills in Indian manufacturing: observed wage and tenure relationships from a worker survey

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Abhishek, Kumar - 2020

It is an overarching and persistent fact that job creation in the Indian manufacturing sector has fallen short of the growth in the workforce. The successive governments since 2009 onwards have attempted to initiate policies to enhance the growth in employment along with quality of jobs in the...

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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data

Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat). We use a consistent estimator to address the two...

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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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Creative India : tapping the full potential

Kukreja, Prateek; Puri, Havishaye; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022

India's creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable … measure on the size of India's creative economy, explores the many challenges faced by the creative industries, and provides … recommendations to make India one of the most creative societies in the world. India's creative economy-measured by the number of …

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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as ‘labor intensive industries’ within India’s organized …

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