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 …

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a …

earnings across immigration classes and categories of Canadians at birth. Adult immigrants, including those assessed by the …

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 … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with …

different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … in the United States. Analysis of the new PIAAC survey of adult skills over the full lifecycle in 22 countries shows that … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On …

various years to examine the relationship between cohort-level private schooling rates and later earnings during adulthood. We … attainment. We find a significant positive relationship between private schooling rates and adult earnings for women but a small …

investments are uncertain and the foregone earnings are potentially large. We use Swedish population register data from 1982 to … 2011 to estimate average long run earnings returns on higher education for 29- to 55-year-olds who enrolled 1992-1993. We …

people. Closures are expected to reduce schooling and lead to future losses in earnings. Starting from the assumption that … every additional year of schooling translates to 8 percent in future earnings, this paper estimates and confirms the loss in … marginal future earnings on the basis of a four-month shutdown. We also estimated the losses by level of education. The …