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Education and Wage Inequality in Portugal
Budria, Santiago; Nunes, Celso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837544
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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity
mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212582
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Quality of higher education and earnings: Regression discontinuity evidence from the French Baccalaureate
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has predominantly focused on the returns to the most selective universities. However, less is known about the extent to which these gains are realized for the academically marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212787
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Does university choice drive graduates’ employability?
Ciriaci, Daria; Muscio, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Universities have come under increasing pressure to become key drivers of economic development in the age of the knowledge economy. Yet we know very little about the impact of university quality and scientific excellence on the probability of graduates finding jobs. This paper investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258403
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Моделиране на възвращаемостта от образование и реализация на притежателите на докторски степени на пазара на труда в България...
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Panayotova, Nataliya; Ganev, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
income differences among doctoral degree holders. We find out that a doctoral degree holder in natural or technical science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260712
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Social returns to education in a developing country
Filiztekin, Alpay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper estimates social returns to education in Turkey. Most evidence on spillovers from human capital comes mostly from developed countries, and estimates vary from country to country. The paper finds that social returns to education are around 3-4%, whereas private returns per year of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372568
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Language Skills and Economic Returns
Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article focuses on the contributions from the emerging positivist epistemological approach, endorsed by the economics of language and the economics of education, to study the returns to language skills, assuming that language competencies constitute key components of human capital. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645134
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Effects of manufacturing dynamics on returns to education in the North of Mexico
Caamal Olvera, Cinthya G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the pattern of the labor market appraisal of workers’ schooling, focusing on the Northern regions of the country. The manufacturing industry is studied in particular since a large part of the economic activity is located in the North, relative to the rest of the country’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107872
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La elección del sector laboral y los retornos a la educación en Guatemala
Alejos, Luis Alejandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper estimates the returns to education in Guatemala, while attempting to account for self-employment and the presence of workers without monetary earnings in the economy, factors whose omission can potentially lead to sample selection bias. The analysis uses data from the Survey of Living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110200
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The Impact of Gender on Mid-Career Labour Income: The Case of Bulgaria
Stoilova, Rumiana; Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Kotzeva, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
,000 employees between 35 and 49 years old. The impact assessment allows conclusions about the wage gap between men and women …The impact assessment of education and gender on mid-career labour income in a transitional economy could provide for … attempt to find an answer to the question: How education and gender determine mid-career labour income? We estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113735