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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001685746
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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014
process in which unmeasured variables jointly affect initial conditions and subsequent growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434496
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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411639
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that … earnings growth of post-1965 U.S. immigrants. When both functional-form and sample-selection constraints are lifted, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another … asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues … that create this divide and show that low earnings growth becomes high earnings growth when immigrants are followed from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500969
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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models : A Survey
Belzil, Christian - 2006
This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779183
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Unobserved Ability and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2021
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320494
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Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic Self-Selection
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2021
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321010
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
process in which unmeasured variables jointly affect initial conditions and subsequent growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043685
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The slowdown in American educational attainment
Keller, Elisa - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 46 (2014) C, pp. 252-270
college attainment for the 1920–1970 birth cohorts. The stagnation in college attainment is due to the decrease in the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906789