- 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 …

. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that … to the predictions of the traditional model of migration, based on self-selection, migrants returning home are positively … selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …

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 …

"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify …

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education … (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …

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 …

held constant, faster earnings growth for low-entry-earnings immigrants is found empirically even when age and education …