diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …

A new Swedish dataset is used to examine the relationships between education, experience and earnings. We focus on four … indicate that a lower starting salary led to faster wage growth and that the return to formal firm-provided education was … substantial in terms of wage growth. The results further indicate that accurate information on experience is essential, since …

returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions on type … of education (public vs. private) for each educational level (primary, secondary, technical tertiary and university … educational trajectories. The results indicate higher returns to education for those who attended private schools than those who …

account for the fact that a new Federal Education Law (FEL) in 1996 extended mandatory education to 10 years. Differences …

in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the … tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage distribution by controlling the transmission of information in the …