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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 25 uppsatser innehållade ordet Mincer.

  1. 16. Regional Differences in Returns to Education : An Analysis of the Italian Case from 1995 to 2014

    Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Nationalekonomi

    Författare :RoxanaMaria Lungu; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Human Capital; Education; Earnings; Regional Effect; Mincer Equation; Italy;

    Sammanfattning : Return to education and regional differences have been amply studied in the literature, in particular by Human Capital and New Economic Geography studies. A combination of both these perspectives was not examined in the case of Italy regarding the North vs. South gap. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Men and Women’s Return to Cognitive Skills. : Evidence from PIAAC.

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Victor Sowa; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Gender wage differences; cognitive skills; PIAAC; Mincer Equation; Human Capital; OLS; survey data; jackknife;

    Sammanfattning : Do men and women receive different pay-offs, in terms of wage, from cognitive skills in the Swedish labor market? To answer this, the classical Mincer equation is expanded with a variable for cognitive skills (literacy and numeracy) and an interaction term between being a male and cognitive skills to be able to distinguish the actual difference in pay-off. I use data from OECD’s PIAAC survey of adult skills, which provides a unique opportunity to examine gender pay-off differences concerning cognitive skills. LÄS MER

  4. 18. The impact of Over-education and Under-education on Earnings: Egypt in a Post Revolutionary Era

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Nada Bedir; [2014]
    Nyckelord :education-occupation mismatch; over-education; under-education; instrumental variables; Father’s education; Egypt; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research has mainly addressed the impact of over/under-education on wages in developed countries. Therefore, this paper attempts to fill the void gap in the literature by empirically examining the impact of over-education and under-education on wages in a developing country, namely Egypt, using the 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS). LÄS MER

  5. 19. Effects of education on Sub Saharan Africa

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Wei Pei Juliana Wong; [2012-07-25]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : When Africa strives to provide primary education for all, recent research wonders about the trade-off between more resources allocated to primary education and higher education on Africa’s economic growth. Africa's skills gap is a key concern and poses a real threat to Africa's industrial development and eventually its growth. LÄS MER

  7. 20. The Returns to Education: An Empirical Study of Urban China, 1988-2007

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Benjamin Samuel Faigen; [2012]
    Nyckelord :China.; Labour Market; Mincer; Transition; Returns to Education; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This paper uses data from a recently-released survey pertaining to individuals in urban locations in 2007 to estimate rates of return to education in China. In doing so, previous estimates in the empirical literature are updated by five years. LÄS MER