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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2003

Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household … income, is used as an instrument for attained education in a standard log earnings equation. I find that, in line with the …

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The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries : Evidence from Two Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2004

We study the recent evolution of the college wage gap with a unique data set that covers 10 European countries and two cohorts of male employees from the early to mid 1980s to the mid to late 1990s. We find evidence of significant cross country differences in the level and dynamics of the gap....

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Books are Forever : Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Earnings in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2012

We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in …

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Books are Forever : Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income

Brunello, Giorgio - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...

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Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training : Evidence from Italian Regions

Brunello, Giorgio - 2010

We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to 2005, we find that the marginal effect of one additional week of formal training on monthly earnings...

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The Returns to Education in Italy : A New Look at the Evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education Over the Life Cycle : Evidence from Two British Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio - 2015

Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....

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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...

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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

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