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Educational mismatch and self-employment

Bender, Keith A.; Roche, Kristen - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 85-95

Previous research on educational mismatch concentrates on estimating its labor market consequences but with a focus on wage and salary workers. This paper examines the far less studied influence of mismatch on the self-employed. Using a sample of workers in science and engineering fields,...

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The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 263-275

English requirements using the over-education, required education, under-education (ORU) approach. The analyses show that …

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The labor market returns to a for-profit college education

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-140

A lengthy literature estimating the returns to education has largely ignored the for-profit sector. In this paper, we … associate's degree students attend for an average of 2.6 years, this translates to a 4% return per year of education in a for …

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions: A Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 515-523

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …

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