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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Do international study programmes pay off for local students?

Wang, Zhiling; Pastore, Francesco; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2021

students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef (contributor); … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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Can vocational education improve schooling and labour outcomes? : evidence from a large expansion

Ferreira, João R.; Martins, Pedro S. - 2023

estimates typically exceed 50 percentage points. These effects are even stronger for low-achieving students and welfare …

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Student achievement and university classes : effects of attendance, size, peers, and teachers

Martins, Pedro S. (contributor); Walker, Ian (contributor) - 2006

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …

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Is there a return-risk link in education?

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001

Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between return to education and the risk involved in this...

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Updates on returns to education in India: analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data

Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

in other low- middle-income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …

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"Study hard and make progress every day": updates on returns to education in China

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

In this paper, we apply Generalized Propensity Score Matching (GPSM) method, which deals with a continuous treatment variable, to estimate the returns to education in China from 2010 to 2017. Results are compared with OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation, as well as estimates from...

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What drives social returns to education? : a meta-analysis

Cui, Ying; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper, we study such externalities and their drivers by conducting the first meta-analysis of the social returns to education literature. We analyse over 1,000 estimates from 32...

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Does vocational education pay off in China? : evidence from city-level education supply shocks

Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

how these two streams compare in the country. Using 2013 China Household Income Project data, we estimate the returns to …

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