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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...
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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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-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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In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), cross-sectional wage regression results from 1997 and panel results from 1984-1997 are presented. It...
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This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its transition from a plan-based economy to a more "market oriented" structure. Using two Russian household panel data sets, the RLMS and the RUSSET, we find that since the...
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Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our …
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