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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...

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La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy

Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, 1975-1979). We explore the average trends and disentangle how the patterns vary according to...

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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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The Empirical Content of Season-of-Birth Effects: An Investigation with Turkish Data

Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016

Although the season of birth variable is often used as an instrumental variable to estimate the rate of returns to schooling in the labor economics literature, there is an emerging consensus that the season of birth is systematically associated with later outcomes in life such as the educational...

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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...

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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Lucifora, Claudio; Comi, Simona; Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

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The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

We study the recent evolution of the college wage gap with a unique data set that comprises two cohorts and 10 European countries from the early to mid 1980s to the mid to late 1990s. We find evidence of significant cross country differences in the level and dynamics of the gap. There is also...

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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005

as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …

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Too young to leave the nest? The effects of school starting age

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age …

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How important is homeland education for refugees' economic position in the Netherlands?

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2005

We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by … finding is the absence of returns to higher education. …

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