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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED
Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002
In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data … from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies between U.S. natives and the foreign …-born. We find that foreignborn men who hold a GED but received all of their formal schooling outside of the U.S. earn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411097
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Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings of male dropouts, utilizing the Texas … Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP). These unique data contain demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education …. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the passing standard was raised in 1997 to dropouts with the same test scores …
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Modeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas
Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary … assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the GED passing standard, to yield unbiased estimates … of the signaling value of the GED for marginal passers. We apply the model to the national 1997 passing standard increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762225
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Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED
Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002
In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data … from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies between U.S. natives and the foreign …-born. We find that foreignborn men who hold a GED but received all of their formal schooling outside of the U.S. earn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262775
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Labor market returns to a prison GED
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020
lead to both private and public benefits. One of the most popular programs prepares prisoners to pass the GED exam, which … is an academic certification for those without a high-school diploma. We analyze the labor market returns to a GED earned … matched comparison group difference-in-differences design with individual fixed effects. We find that the GED can lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256896
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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject-based test. The … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of … post-secondary credentials. Although the GED establishes cognitive equivalence on one measure of scholastic aptitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025653
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776921
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786216
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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524845
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Parental background, primary to secondary school transitions, and wages
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403839