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Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop … pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section of 29 countries in the PIAAC dataset. We find a persistent drop in numeracy …
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Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop … pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section of 29 countries in the PIAAC dataset. We find a persistent drop in numeracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077957
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
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Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop …-panel approach to a single cross-section of 29 countries in the PIAAC dataset. We find a persistent drop in numeracy skills after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015123433
Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, employment and earnings of mothers … adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section of 29 countries in the PIAAC dataset. We find a long-term drop in …
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It is well-established that human capital contributes to unequal levels of earnings mobility. Individuals with higher … skill demands of employment. To deepen insight into whether these aspects contribute to earnings mobility over a four … capital are associated with earnings mobility. The results indicate that, while individuals with higher cognitive skills …
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with different skill levels. For our analysis, we link the PIAAC survey data on literacy and numeracy skills with the …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114625
This paper investigates whether returns to schooling differ according to the choice of the measure of earnings and the … the Heckman method, we show that converting earnings to common measures and pooling respondents produces different …
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