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Rates of return to education : the view of students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001
expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries …. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …
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Forming wage expectations through learning : evidence from college major choices
Xia, Xiaoyu - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 132 (2016) 1, pp. 176-196
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Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? : evidence from healthcare
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 141 (2017), pp. 135-150
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Joint decisions on household membership and human capital accumulation of youths : the role of expected earnings and local markets
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Monfardini, Chiara - 2000
This paper analyses the effects of expected earnings and local markets conditions on the behaviour of young adults with high school diplomas. Decisions to either remain in the parental home or form a new household are modelled jointly with those of either gaining work experience or investing in...
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Heterogeneous returns to human capital and dynamic self-selection
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...
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Returns to education and wage equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001
, tenure and the fact of using hourly or monthly wages. At this stage the use of the simple specification of the Mincer …
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Should I stay or should I go? Educational choices and earnings : an empirical study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - 2000
In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese educational system. At each potential exit level we consider two decisions: the decision to continue studying and the employment decision, whereas normally only the first decision...
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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy
Konrad, Kai A. - 1999
Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy.
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Sibling rivalry in educational attainment : the German case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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