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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 110 (2008) 4, pp. 695-709
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003792111
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK college premiumʺ for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the “college premium”. The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled – yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806866
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213
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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium." The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318481
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Child Support and Educational Outcomes : Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2019
thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … least 10 times as large as that associated with variations in other sources of total household net income for two key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207399
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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling
Hansen, Jorgen; Belzil, Christian - 2004
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179293
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Education and early career outcomes of second-generation immigrants in France
Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 17 (2010) 1, pp. 101-110
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003955061
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Education and early career outcomes of second-generation immigrants in France
Belzil, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784382