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Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...
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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...
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
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Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …
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survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … other factors (including education), and also obtain higher returns to their education. In other words, the more educated … reap higher returns from their education as a main effect, as well as higher returns to their education from migration than …
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education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using …-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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March 2010. <p>Human capital theory supports the view that people with higher levels of education and lower incidences of …. While wages are likely to be a reasonable indicator of the effects of education on labour productivity, statistical issues … under- or overstate the negative effects of ill health on labour productivity. In this paper, higher levels of education are …
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...
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higher education, we show that the net real value of the careers of some categories of teachers, defined as the discounted …
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