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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
for education, language, and employment. Such policies can also reduce barriers to entry, encourage naturalization, and …
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The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several … of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining inequalities and wages convergence over time emerge from comparison …
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American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
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quality of the education-occupation match: based on the predicted and observed distribution of workers using their fields of … regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education … this premise in mind, this paper aims to estimate the effect of the quality of this education-occupation job match on …
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547022
by estimating the impact of schooling on measured test scores at various quantiles of the latent ability distribution. …
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dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … accounts for around 9 percent of the increase in German wage inequality since the 1980s. …
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