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Education and Mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822153
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Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822163
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822567
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Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules
Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 3, pp. 325-325
This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative regimes of social security. We implement a theoretical model with overlapping generations of households and two different ability types within each generation. We find that with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823445
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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers
Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419546
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Education, gender and labour mobility
Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most … important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand the link between education and training on the one hand and economic … and social inequality on the other. The authors focus the analysis on three main aspects of the links between education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146777
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914682
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Education and family background: Mechanisms and policies.
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2010
’ education or with other indicators of their parents’socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019282
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011
There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009146692
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2011
There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323352