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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 to …

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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000

Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4% during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5% by 2000. Our analysis finds little...

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Russian Jewish immigrants in the United States: The adjustment of their English language proficiency and earnings in the American Community Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas - 2012

Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but because of steeper improvements with duration in the...

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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed...

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...

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Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa from Household Surveys: Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Wage-differentials by education of men and women are examined from African household surveys to suggest private wage returns to schooling. It is commonly asserted that returns are highest at primary school levels and decrease at secondary and postsecondary levels, whereas private returns in six...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation

Mejίa, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - 2005

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...

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