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Wage Growth Over the Past 30 Years : Changing Wages by Age and Education

Morissette, Rene - 2012

from various Statistics Canada surveys and focuses on the real (hourly or weekly) wages earned by full-time workers. It is … changed over the past three decades. Wages are expressed in 2010 dollars. Since the early 1980s, real wages of various groups … changes, growth in international trade, institutional factors (e.g., de-unionization, changes in minimum wages, and changes in …

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Variations in the wage returns to a first degree : evidence from the British cohort study 1970

Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor); … - 2005

"As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a...

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying the international empirical literature from this freshperspective and by simulating risky earnings profiles in alternative options. choosingparameters on basis of the very...

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Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors

Ransom, Tyler - 2020

I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and estimate an extended Roy model of migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon...

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Selective migration, occupational choice, and the wage returns to college majors

Ransom, Tyler - 2020

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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Schweri, Jürg - 2009

estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …

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Variations in the Wage Returns to a First Degree : Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970

Bratti, Massimiliano; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy - 2021

As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a...

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The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education

O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2021

Between 1990/91 and 2000/01 the number of male undergraduates in Britain increased by over one-third while the number of female undergraduates has increased nearly twofold. Given this substantial increase in supply we would expect some impact on the wage premium for recent graduates unless...

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Returns to Education and Wage Equations

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

, tenure and the fact of using hourly or monthly wages. At this stage the use of the simple specification of the Mincer …

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Returns to Education and Wage Equations

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001

, tenure and the fact of using hourly or monthly wages. At this stage the use of the simple specification of the Mincer …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262504