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Economic returns to education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going—Some brief pointers

Dickson, Matt; Harmon, Colm - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1118-1122

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...

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Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers

Harmon, Colm - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2011

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Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance

Harmon, Colm - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2002

closely, so as to investigate the effect of variables such as family income on that choice. Proposed educational finance … households and individual students for participation in education, thus reducing the opportunity cost of staying on at school …

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Estimates of Economic Return to Schooling in the UK.

Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 1995

This paper uses UK data to estimate the returns to schooling. We address the endogeneity of schooling by exploiting the experimental nature of two changes in the minimum school leaving age to instrument eduction. The corrected estimates of the return to education indicate the presence of a large...

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Taux de remplacement du revenu chez les aines au Canada : l'effet du veuvage et du divorce

Picot, Garnett; Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

La securite financiere des veuves et des femmes divorcees durant la retraite est depuis longtemps un sujet de preoccupation. Dans le present article, la question est examinee dans le contexte de travaux de recherche sur les < taux de remplacement du revenu >, c'est-a-dire la mesure dans laquelle le revenu familial durant les...</taux>

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Income Replacement Rates Among Canadian Seniors: The Effect of Widowhood and Divorce

Picot, Garnett; Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

places this issue within the context of research on replacement rates, the extent to which family income during the working …

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Income Security and Stability During Retirement in Canada

Picot, Garnett; Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

achieved during their working years after retirement (income security) is less well understood. To help fill this knowledge gap … various measures of an individual's family income to study four main issues: change in income levels through retirement; the … role that various income sources play in this change; variation in replacement rates through time and between poorer and …

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Securite et stabilite du revenu a la retraite au Canada

Picot, Garnett; Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

Des recherches anterieures ont montre que le systeme de pension du Canada est relativement efficace pour ce qui est d'aider les personnes agees a echapper a la pauvrete. Toutefois, la mesure dans laquelle le systeme de pension permet aux particuliers et aux familles de maintenir a la retraite...

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