- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …

migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to … live and an occupation in which to work. In order to estimate this high-dimensional choice model, I make use of machine … estimates of the returns to business and STEM majors relative to education majors are biased upward by 15% on average. Using …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by … educational classifications positively affects wages, while the skewness has a negative effect. As has been referred in previous … results show that the impact of wage-variation on wages is not reasonably described by a single parameter for all individuals …

on those who graduated from either secondary or tertiary education in Latin American countries, we present comparative … in different ways. This contradicts the popular belief in policy circles that the education quality of the region has …

This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as … a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable … Zealand data. New Zealand provides an interesting case, as a country where migrants from diverse ethnic groups comprise a …

migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …

selected while occupation movers are positively selected and move towards better paid-jobs characterised by less routine tasks … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …