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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Mincer"”.
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Variaciones del salario en función del área de trabajo para las carreras de ingeniería comercial y contador auditor : estudio de las variaciones del salario en las carreras de ingeniería comercial y contador auditor controlando por área de trabajo, puntajes de prueba de selección universitaria y condiciones socioeconómicas
… en contraste con el modelo tradicional de Mincer de retorno a la educación. Para este efecto se utilizaron regresiones lineales de la ecuación de Mincer en su versión más simple y una regresión de Mincer más completa. De los resultados se obtienen ranking de remuneraciones por área de …
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Investicijos į žmogiškąjį kapitalą ir jų efektyvumo vertinimas /
… "Full Discounted Cash Flow" method and "Extended Mincer Earnings Function" method, which has not been widely used in Lithuania. The latter method involves econometric estimation of earnings function where log of earnings is regressed mostly on years of studies and experience in the labor market. …
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La educación como determinante de la desigualdad
… regresiones cuantilicas y la ecuación de Mincer (1974). El estudio se realizó para distintos países de Latinoamérica en el segundo trimestre de 2018 y se centró en los hombres empleados de 16 a 64 años. Los retornos a la educación crecen cuando se mide un mayor nivel salarial y puede …
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Higher level manpower development in Indonesia: Rates of return and embodied technical change
… employed: the pure internal rate of return, the Mincer earnings function, the Cobb-Douglas production function, and the nested-CES production function. Several topics relating to rates of return to higher education in Indonesia are also discussed. They include background comparisons of education …
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Commodity ETF Tracking Divergence
… test for average Tracking Differences using the Mincer-Zarnowitz Equation. We find evidence of bias in returns for multiple ETFs and demonstrate the usefulness of the decomposition. Furthermore, we investigate the dynamics of Tracking Error using a GARCH methodology. We find support that the …
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Brecha salarial de género en América Latina: El impacto de las habilidades socio-emocionales
… presente trabajo es incorporar a la regresión de Mincer diferentes rasgos de personalidad; en particular los “Big Five”, autoeficacia, determinación (grit) y tolerancia al riesgo; para intentar explicar parte de la brecha salarial de género en América Latina. A partir de los datos que surgen de la …
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Essays in economic geography: Convergence, inequalities and innovations in the knowledge economy
… which represent the characteristics of workers (Mincer, 1974), the economic sector (Hewings, 1977), and sample selection bias (Heckman 1979), among others. Once these factors are considered in a hedonic model, the differential of the remaining wages can be interpreted as the existing inequality …
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The Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Force Participation in The Province of Quebec (Canada)
… builds along analytical developments proposed by Mincer, Welch and Gramlich and adds considerations on interactions between minimum wages and unemployment insurance, welfare benefits and changes in relative supply; it also considers nonconstant employment elasticities with respect to minimum wage …
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Retornos a la educación: desempleo joven y capital humano asociados al caso argentino, 2003-2018.
… temática siguiendo el modelo de ecuaciones de Mincer usando el caso argentino para obtener conclusiones que nos permitan entender si el desempleo joven es signo de pérdida de capital humano.
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The Intersection between Liberal Education and Health Profession Education at Armstrong
This mixed methods inquiry explored how liberal and health professions faculty at one University perceived each College and the relationship between faculties in each of their Colleges. Three faculty members from each of these Colleges were interviewed individually and they then participated in a …
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Essays in Immigration and Migration
… developing country households. I generalize the Mincer (1978) model of husband-wife migration by including decision makers from the extended family. The model with extended families predicts that migration decisions may become freer than in the husband-wife model because spouses are not more …
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Three Essays Applying Dynamic Models in Economics, Finance, and Machine Learning
… The model is demonstrated by estimating a Mincer wage equation using US census data and occupational skills data from the Occupational Information Network. Several Monte Carlo exercises are carried out to better understand the behavior of the model on simulated datasets with varying degrees …
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Three Essays on the Evolution of the Determinants of Educational Attainment and its Consequences
… of income starting from 1910 cohort. Following Mincer (1974), a wave of papers studied how various factors contribute to the earnings of individuals. This paper contributes to that literature in three ways: (i) using the PSID data, it computes the actual working experience of the individuals, …
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Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing and International Finance
… evaluation criteria, including out-of-sample R², Mincer-Zarnowitz R², gains in average excess portfolio returns, and a range of risk-adjusted metrics such as the Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Calmar ratio, and gain-to-pain ratio. Moreover, the rolling out-of-sample R² underscores sDOC's …
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Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
<p>At least since the seminal works of Jacob Mincer, labor economists have sought to understand how students make higher education investment decisions. Mincer’s original work seeks to understand how students decide how much education to accrue; subsequent work by various authors seeks to …
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Essays in the Economics of Education
<p>This dissertation is comprised of three essays in the economics of education. In the first essay, I examine how college students' major choice and major switching behavior responds to major-specific labor market shocks. The second essay explores the incidence and persistence of overeducation for …
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Bridging the Skills Gap: Essays on education, skills, and labour market outcomes in Europe and the UK
… the estimation of returns using an adapted Mincer specification. It asks: Who participates in job-related training? And then, for those who participate, does the market recognise and value such training? Using data from 2013 to 2023, the analysis shows that occupational skill level …