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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation

Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...

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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective

Wang, Le - In: Labour Economics 21 (2013) C, pp. 74-85

parents are present in the same household. The IV estimates based on these selective sub-samples may be inconsistent, even … particularly worrisome, suggesting that the previous IV results are robust. In particular, using China Household Income Project …

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Education's role in China's structural transformation

Lee, Soohyung; Malin, Benjamin A. - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 148-166

between an individual's educational attainment, sector, and income. We find that about 11% of aggregate growth in output per …

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND WAGE INEQUALITY: EVIDENCE FOR EUROPE

BUDRÍA, SANTIAGO; TELHADO-PEREIRA, PEDRO - In: Revista de Economia Aplicada 19 (2011) 2, pp. 5-34

In this paper we investigate the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. Using data from...

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Interregional migration, self-selection and the returns to education in Brazil

Gries, Thomas; Kraft, Manfred; Pieck, Christina - In: The Annals of Regional Science 46 (2011) 3, pp. 707-732

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Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers

Harmon, Colm - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2011

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...

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Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill

Fernandes, Ana P.; Ferreira, Priscila; Alan Winters, L. - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 210-230

This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in the industrialized world, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using matched employer–employee data for the universe of workers and...

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Chancengleichheit durch den Zweiten Bildungsweg? - Langfristige Arbeitsmarkterträge später Hochschulreife

Sterrenberg, Margret K. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2014

I analyze the long-term labor market returns after completing a higher education entrance (HEE) qualification as a qualified worker older than age 20 (Zweiter Bildungsweg), using data of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). I use a Mincer-type equation, where the school-leaving...

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Does higher education reduce body weight? Evidence using a reform of the student grant scheme

Greve, Jane; Weatherall, Cecilie D - Rockwool Fondens Forskningsenhed (RFF) - 2013

education and body weight by studying the effect of higher education on body weight according to subgroups of parental income …-weighted. However, we find suggestive evidence that the effect differs by income background. Amongst men who grew up in low-income … probability of being overweight). Amongst men who grew up in middle or high-income households, enrolling in higher education has …

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Employability and Earnings Returns to Qualifications in Scotland

Gasteen, Anne; Houston, John - In: Regional Studies 41 (2007) 4, pp. 443-452

A. und Houston J. (2007) Auswirkung von Qualifikationen auf Beschaftigungsfahigkeit und Einkommen in Schottland … der Dezentralisierung ist Schottland fur die Bildungspolitik zustandig, doch die Auswirkungen auf Einkommen und … Einkommen und Beschaftigungsfahigkeit anhand der Daten des Labour Force Survey von 1999 bis 2003 untersucht. Schulabschlusse auf …

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