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Estimating marginal returns to education
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marg... Show more
Date: 2010
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
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Female labour supply and spousal education
Three hypotheses are given to explain why a married woman's work hours might be related to her husband's education,... Show more
Date: 2010
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Subjects: Labour market; Gender; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Are computer skills the new basic skills?: the returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain
The large increase in computer use has raised the question whether people have to be taught computer skills before ... Show more
Date: 2003
Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Research; Skills and knowledge; Literacy ... [+] Show more
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Two-sided search, heterogeneous skills and labor market performance
A quantitative model of two-sided search with ex-ante heterogeneity in both worker and entrepreneurial skills is pr... Show more
Date: 2005
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Statistics; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the em... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: France; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Employment; Vocational education and training; Finance ... [+] Show more
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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, edu... Show more
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: North America; Oceania; United States ... [+] Show more
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Language; Income; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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Disability and skill mismatch
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Emp... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Disability; Labour market; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Immigrants' language skills: the Australian experience in a longitudinal survey
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among... Show more
Date: 2002
Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Literacy; Language; Research ... [+] Show more
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Alcohol and student performance: estimating the effect of legal access
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic perfor... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: United States; North America
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Students; Higher education; Performance ... [+] Show more
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The effect of high school employment on educational attainment: a conditional difference-in-differences approach
Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigate... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Students; Performance; Employment ... [+] Show more