different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more …

subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

earnings advantage. The obtained marginal rates of return to additional education vary between 2.3 and 9.6 percent per …In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese … decision, whereas normally only the first decision is modelled. Correlation between the error terms of the earnings functions …

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …

education affects individual earnings during the transitional process. We find that education accounts for only a small fraction … education on earnings. More educated people tend to enter state-owned sectors, have a low probability of changing jobs in the …Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the …

to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching models of the effect of employer supported course enrolment on …

as those with occupations outside of education, are used to adjust for state household amenity attractiveness. We then … significantly affects the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. …