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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...

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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education more than triples from primary to secondary level or...

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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Job training, english language skills, and employability : evidence from an experiment in urban India

Loyalka, Prashant; Mistree, Dinsha; Fairlie, Robert W.; … - 2024

-scale randomized field experiment conducted in Delhi, India involving 1,260 low-income individuals. Experimental estimates indicate …

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Linguistic barriers in the destination language acquisition of immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2014

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...

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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio (contributor); Tansel, Aysıt (contributor) - 2013

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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013 - This version: November 3, 2013

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...

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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013 - This version: November 3, 2013

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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country : the case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

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The winner takes it all : internal migration, education and wages in Ethiopia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina - 2015

Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household survey, this paper examines internal migration in...

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