Education, Work and Wages in the UK
This paper is concerned with the relationship between education, wages and working behaviour. The work is partly motivated by the sharp distinction in the literature between the returns to education and the effect of wages on labour supply. Education is the investment that cumulates in the form of human capital while labour supply is the utilization rate of that stock. Yet, variation in education is usually the basis for identifying labour supply models - education is assumed to determine wages but not affect labour supply. Moreover, it is commonly assumed that the private rate of return to education can be found from the schooling coefficient in a log-wage equation. Yet, the costs of education are largely independent of its subsequent utilization but the benefits will be higher the greater the utilization rate. Thus the returns will depend on how intensively that capital is utilized and we would expect that those who intend to work least to also invest least in human capital. Indeed, the net (of tax liabilities and welfare entitlements) return to education will be a complex function of labour supply and budget constraint considerations. Copyright Verein für Socialpolitik and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005.
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2005
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Authors: | Bingley, Paul ; Zhu, Yu ; Walker, Ian |
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German Economic Review. - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS. - Vol. 6.2005, 3, p. 395-414
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Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS |
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