uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the effect of peacetime conscription on education and labor market … outcomes. Results indicate that conscription eligibility induces a significant increase in years of education, which is … consistent with conscription avoidance behavior. However, this increased education does not result in either an increase in …

An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has … and postsecondary education to labor market outcomes, allowing us to track the complete educational and professional paths … postsecondary education leads to a significant earnings premium for academically marginal students. …

education. Then, we construct a conceptual framework which allows us to answer the question “What happens to doctoral degree …

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 education amount to 5% in Turkey. Moreover, the findings indicate that …

This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for …. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and suggest that skills are particularly valuable in the Por …-tuguese labour market. Second, over the last two decades returns to education increased steadily, which suggests that skill …

In this paper we explore the connection between education and wage inequality in Spain for the period 1994 … higher education is associated with higher wage dispersion. According to this, the educational expansion that took place in … differences within education groups. We find that over the recent years, the proportion of strongly mismatched workers rose …

economics of language and the economics of education, to study the returns to language skills, assuming that language …

-skill workers, such as Asian countries. Quantile estimation results show that the labor market valued less the additional years of … education acquired by workers over the period from 1988 to 2011. Results show that workers at the lowest part of the … distribution are the ones who seem to be most affected in terms of education investment by the decline of manufacturing activity in …

This paper estimates the returns to education in Guatemala, while attempting to account for self-employment and the … education are strongly supported by the empirical results. It is found that OLS estimates which do not account for sector choice … education. The results also show lower rates of return in the self-employment sector and that workers who only complete primary …