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 … European average. Second, we examine whether the estimated returns to education have varied significantly over time. The …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …

other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns to women's education among … women. When the analysis controls for sample selection bias and heterogeneity, the returns to women's education rise …Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …

Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …

smaller economic returns, such as education and humanities degrees, especially for men. …This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate … degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to …

gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males suffer a large wage penalty. We also find that non-monetary aspects … on teaching careers by gender, which can influence the sorting of male and female teachers across government and private … gender preferences may influence teachers' recruitment by gender. However, we caution that such prospective initiatives need …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …

gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …