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Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation : the Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary returns of one additional year of education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2016
non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507219
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer’s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822355
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry - In: Review of Economics of the Household 1 (2003) 4, pp. 343-361
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer's contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005711875
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Encouraging women’s labor force participation in transition countries
Pignatti, Norberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Increasing women’s labor force participation is important to sustainable economic development, especially in economies with highly educated women and an aging population. Women’s participation varies across transition countries, driven by such economic and social factors as traditional views...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573654
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Encouraging women's labor force participation in transition countries
Pignatti, Norberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
Increasing women's labor force participation is important to sustainable economic development, especially in economies with highly educated women and an aging population. Women's participation varies across transition countries, driven by such economic and social factors as traditional views of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266236
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Chutes and ladders : dual tracks and the motherhood dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - 2010
earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315297
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Employer responses to family leave programs
Ginja, Rita; Karimi, Arizo; Xiao, Pengpeng - 2020
Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306303
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Employer responses to family leave programs
Ginja, Rita; Karimi, Arizo; Xiao, Pengpeng - 2020
Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A t hree-month parental l eave e xpansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307708
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Explaining the MENA paradox : rising educational attainment, yet stagnant female labor force participation
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Hendy, Rana; Lassassi, Moundir; … - 2018
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, a phenomenon that has come to be known as the "MENA paradox." Even if increases in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810299