insured. Underreporting insurable wages is negatively correlated with education and work experience. High contribution rates …

analysis of the causes of this event. Instrumental-variable estimates show that increasing female education and reduced infant …' education with the years of schooling of people aged 40-64. These results are confirmed by the application of Lewbel's (2012 …

As China's firms upgrade their position in the quality ladder, vocational education may become more important. In this … paper, we study returns to secondary vocational education in China paying attention to individual heterogeneity. We use … of education. We find that vocational education provides a wage premium vis-à-vis academic education of over 30% but …

Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper …, we study the drivers of such externalities by conducting the first meta-analysis of the social returns to education …

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education … qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper … secondary level and the tertiary level. Compared to those who only complete compulsory education, upper secondary graduates earn …

education in China. To address possible endogeneity of vocational training due to omitted heterogeneity, we construct a novel … instrumental variable using the proportion of tertiary education graduates relative to the entire population by year. Our main … finding is that, although returns to vocational upper secondary education appear higher than returns to academic upper …