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Staying-on at school at 16: the impact of labor market conditions in Spain
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In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of family characteristics and local labor market conditions on the demand for post-compulsory education and find that parents' education is the main determinant of school enrollment, producing a sort of intergenerational persistence in the Spanish stock of human capital.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2002-08-01. It has received 126 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Youth unemployment & Unemployment.read more
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Essays in Optimal Government Policy
TL;DR: Gerritsen as discussed by the authors made a number of contributions to the field of public economics by challenging conventional wisdom on optimal taxation, optimal redistribution, and optimal minimum wages, and showed how government should use corrective taxation when people do not always act in their own interest, why a decrease of the minimum wage is part of a reform that would make everybody better off, and that income taxation and unemployment benefits should be higher in times of high involuntary unemployment.
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La evolución de la desigualdad de oportunidades educativas: una revisión sistemática de los análisis del caso español The Evolution of Inequality of Educational Opportunities: A Systematic Review of Analyses of the Spanish Case
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Encouraged or Discouraged? The Effect of Adverse Macroeconomic Conditions on School Leaving and Reentry:
TL;DR: The authors found that countercyclical education enrollment generally confirms that youths seek shelter in the educational system to avoid hardships in the labor market: the "discouraged worker" or "uncertainty worker".
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Una radiografía del abandono escolar temprano en España: Algunas claves para la política educativa en los inicios del siglo XXI
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the evolution of early school leaving, contextualizing this phenomenon with the historical schooling problems of Spain, and emphasising the evolution during the first 15 years of the 21st century.
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Post-16 Educational Choices and Institutional Value Added at Key Stage 5
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of a youngest child being eligible for part-time nursery education and full-time primary education on welfare receipt and employment patterns among lone parents receiving welfare.
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Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital and developed the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters.
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Changes in Relative Wages, 1963–1987: Supply and Demand Factors
Lawrence F. Katz,Kevin M. Murphy +1 more
TL;DR: A simple supply and demand framework is used to analyze changes in the U.S. wage structure from 1963 to 1987 as discussed by the authors, showing that rapid secular growth in the demand for more-educated workers, "more-skilled" workers, and females appears to be the driving force behind observed changes in wage structure.
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An International Comparison
Gjalt de Jong,Bart Nooteboom +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an international comparison of long-term supply relationships between the United States, Japan and Europe was conducted, and the empirical evidence indicated that there are strong similarities between the three regions, but these differences seem small, particularly relative to the expectations one may have on the basis of received view on systemic differences between “Japanese and “Western” contracting.
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College Entry by Blacks since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background, and the Returns to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data from a time series of cross sections of 18-19-year-old youths from 1973 through 1988 to test the role of family background, direct college costs, local economic conditions, and returns to college in driving these trends.