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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

– Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … earnings. …

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Measuring the consumption value of higher education

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2009

This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...

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The consumption value of higher education

Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2009

The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...

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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people: Evidence from PISA and linked administrative data

Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023

education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …

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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Lucifora, Claudio; Comi, Simona; Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

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Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants …

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Educational mismatch: are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although …

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …

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