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Educational gradient in physiological risk factors in a workplace : a decomposition analysis of biomarkers

Aizawa, Toshiaki - 2022

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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007

, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in … education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy …

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How does education affect intergenerational income mobility in Chinese society?

Wang, Shu; Yu, Xiao; Zhang, Kuo; Pei, Jipeng; … - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 26 (2022) 2, pp. 774-792

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The family gap in career progression

Kunze, Astrid - 2014

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals' position in their career hierarchy as well as a direct measure of their promotions....

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Human capital and Black-white earnings gaps, 1996-2017

Thompson, Owen - 2021

This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning from 1966 through 2017, using both educational attainment and performance on standardized tests to measure human capital. There are three main findings. First, the...

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Intangible capital and wages: An analysis of wage gaps across occupations and genders in Czech Republic, Finland and Norway

Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - 2011

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, we explore the wage differentials and the...

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Gender wage gap trends in Europe : the role of occupational allocation and skill prices

Kaya, Ezgi - 2014

In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that uses the direct measures of skill requirements of jobs held by men and women. We find that, during the 1990s and 2000s, the gender wage gap declined in the majority of the...

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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

tertiary education graduates, whereas job characteristics and low skill content of jobs explain most of the wage gap for medium …

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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children’s educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...

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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289280