the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the … supply of educated natives have significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British crosssectional … micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers a resolution to this puzzle …

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope …

by years of education. Log-wages are regressed on a measure of education, which is a position on a scale of certificates … which log-wages are explained by two endogenous variables: the student's degree and the student's time to degree, not simply … parameters. We find a robust, significant and negative impact of the delay variable on wages, averaged over the first five years …

regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education …

determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … regions wages respond predominantly). The hypothesis is tested on United Kingdom regional unemployment data from 1963 to 1979 …

The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is …-term unemployment did not act as a restraint on the growth of money wages. New estimates of the wage equation imply that the NAIRU rose …

characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender … discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

Incentives to invest in higher education are affected by both the direct wage effect of human capital investments and … educated. We analyse the returns to education in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom, countries which differ … significantly regarding both their education systems and labour market structure. We estimate augmented Mincerian wage equations …