Title:Productivity, Seniority and Wages: New Evidence from Personnel Data
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; FLABBI, LucaDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Wages may be observed to increase with seniority because of firm-specific human capital accumulation or because of self-selection of better workers in longer jobs. In both these cases, the upward sloping wage profile in ...
Title:More Equal but Less Mobile?: Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; CHECCHI, Daniele; RUSTICHINI, AldoDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we provide evidence that ...
Title:Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; WINTER-EBMER, RudolfDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Several recent studies based on exogenous' sources of variation in educational outcomes show IV estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding OLS estimates. Card (1995a, Earnings, ...