different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …

a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable … career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …

-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of … our longitudinal data enables us to look at the complex inter-relationship between social class, ability, education and … labour market outcomes. In Britain the production of human capital (cognitive ability and education) has become less …

market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …. Choices of higher-education programs and of occupations do not appear major channels of this result. …

earnings advantage. The obtained marginal rates of return to additional education vary between 2.3 and 9.6 percent per …In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese … decision, whereas normally only the first decision is modelled. Correlation between the error terms of the earnings functions …

programs and schools of higher reputation obtain higher earnings relative to vocational public programs. A one standard … deviation increase in each skill predicts average earnings increases of one to three percent. Returns vary along the earnings …