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structure, income and parents' education. The empirical analysis indicates that the quality of schools is one of the driving …
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We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
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We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260827
We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499579
different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … (overpredict) the share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with …
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different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with information on …
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-linear relationship between these two measures of inequality, actual data indicate that average years of education have a stronger …In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational … attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational …
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We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...
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