Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers

In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation of the instrumental variables, as well as the robustness of the results.

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Year of publication:	2008-08-27
Authors:	Jordahl, Henrik ; Poutvaara, Panu ; Tuomala, Juha
Institutions:	Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN)
Subject:	Education \| Entrepreneurship \| Human capital \| EGIV estimator

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Published in Economics of Education Review, 2009, pages 641-644. The text is part of a series Working Paper Series Number 762 6 pages
Classification:	C23 - Models with Panel Data ; I21 - Analysis of Education ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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