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Give missings a chance : combined stochastic and rule-based approach to improve regression models with mismeasured monotonic covariates without side information
Dlugosz, Stephan - 2011
depends on their high importance for administrative processes. The education variable in the IAB employment sub-sample is an … Mincer-type wage regressions. The procedure reveals that the quality of years in education is very important: The German … labour market rewards general education less than vocational training. Furthermore, using this method, no indication of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901839
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Give Missings a Chance : Combined Stochastic and Rule-Based Approach to Improve Regression Models with Mismeasured Monotonic Covariates Without Side Information
Dlugosz, Stephan - 2011
depends on their high importance for administrative processes. The education variable in the IAB employment sub-sample is an … Mincer-type wage regressions. The procedure reveals that the quality of years in education is very important: The German … labour market rewards general education less than vocational training. Furthermore, using this method, no indication of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130027
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Admissible Invariant Similar Tests for Instrumental Variables Regression
Chernozhukov, Victor; Hansen, Christian Bailey; … - 2007
This paper studies a model widely used in the weak instruments literature and establishes admissibility of the weighted average power likelihood ratio tests recently derived by Andrews, Moreira, and Stock (2004). The class of tests covered by this admissibility result contains the Anderson and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026286
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Schooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries.
Lee, J.-W.; Barro, R.J. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1998
characteristics, such as income and education of parents, have strong effects on student performance. The findings also indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486337
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Post-School Experience and its Impact on Youth Unemployment: an Australian Perspective.
Crockett, G.V. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 2000
This study adds to the knowledge of the transition period for young workers from formal schooling to the workforce. In particular, the article addresses the issue of whether previous employment experience in one or more part-time or full-time jobs incrases the probability of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005631035
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Career Choices of German High School Graduates: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel.
Merz, M.; Schimmelpfenning, A. - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 1999
This paper explores the economic determinants affecting high shcool graduates' career choices in Germany. The estimation results show that high school graduates' career decisions are at least partially determined by economic considerations. Other major determinants are the parental skill-level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744244
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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401654
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346565
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … such increases are still an open question. We use census data to document the overall increase in education-related income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023737
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education … instruments in income regressions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326044