We investigate the impact of trade liberalization on wages and the returns to education in Brazil. Our pseudo …-section estimated returns in developing countries. Trade liberalization impacted on wages and the returns to education in both traded … and non-traded sectors, suggesting important spill-over effects. Wages in both sectors fell in the period immediately …

of postgraduate students who graduated every year increased at a fast pace. In this thesis doctorate and licentiate …

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …