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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/10012599234
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/10001471780
empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … college degree or above falls among the eligible males. The result is robust to alternative estimation strategies. We find no … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … college degree or above falls among the eligible males. The result is robust to alternative estimation strategies. We find no … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309457
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
This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany … to be higher than that for actual years of education. In the case of correctly matched workers who have the ‘typical …’ education in a certain occupation, there is no additional reward in earnings for natives compared to foreign workers. Immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192801
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550294
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
Job polarisation and increasing wage inequality is observed in many rich countries, including Germany. Both phenomena are well-discussed in international literature, though a link can only be observed in the U.S. I assess the impact of job polarisation upon wage inequality in Germany by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866373