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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

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Education and earnings growth : evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

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Sheepskin effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

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Employer learning and the returns to schooling

Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2000

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially...

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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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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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Household characteristics, ability and education : evidence from a dynamic expected utility model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

household characteristics (especially household income). The "true" intergenerational correlation between schooling attainments … and parents' education (after conditioning on observed and unobserved ability) is found to be quite low. Finally, our …

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