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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319838
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Leadership Skills and Wages
Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262770
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286634
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
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
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528800
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
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
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411183
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of age and gender
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-37
We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian …
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It pays to study for the right job : exploring the causes and consequences of education-occupation job mismatch
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Saavedra Caballero, Fabiola - 2019
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 … education (college or more). Using data from the American Community Survey 2010-16, we construct two indices that measure the …
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