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This paper gives empirical evidence of the role of cognitive ability in social stratification by analyzing a Dutch longitudinal data set (the so-called Noord-Brabant cohort), as a contribution to the debates around The Bell Curve. Differences in early cognitive ability influence educational...
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In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...
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, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978 …
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This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the incidence of skill and educational mismatches of African youth and explores the linkages between job mismatch and wages, job satisfaction, and on-thejob search. It uses school-to-work transition survey datasets from 10 African countries...
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earnings. I differentiate for-profit students by the program level and account for students' self-selection into for … specification of the Mincer earnings model is followed up by the rich-covariate model of selection on observables and finally by the … with an increase in individual annualized earnings. However, this finding varies by gender, so I investigate various …
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In this paper we apply a semi-parametric approach (quantile regression - QR) to the last 2007 wave of the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in 8 European countries. We find that wages increase with education and this holds true across the...
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In this paper we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers’ educational skills. We use the 2007 EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its high inter-industry wage...
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university graduates. The results show that the mismatched earn on average 11.7% less than their well-matched counterparts. This … effect, however, cannot be regarded as constant across the conditional earnings distribution: workers with lower unobserved … earnings capacity tend to be exposed to greater wage loses when they end up in mismatched jobs. …
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bottom end of the earnings distribution, increased sharply. At the same time, the past trend towards educational upgrading of … of male earnings, using Labour Force Survey data for years 2006 and 2016. We address the issue of unobserved … introduced by Chernozhukov and Hansen (2008). Our best estimates suggest that education exerts a negative effect on earnings …
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levels of work experience. Two alternative models of the earnings curve are presented, the Mincer model and a model with wage … by estimating these two models with a dynamic panel data model in which earnings are a function of schooling and past … earnings. Finally, I estimate these coefficients empirically using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The results …
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