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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262505
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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS
Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003
Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns. The sensitivity of the estimates once applied to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292932
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297750
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Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272020
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270511
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271386
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336010
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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Reilich, Julia - 2011
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601062
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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1999
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262293
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344