holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …

about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …

association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …

quality of students that HEIs select. That is not to say that the effect of course selectivity on wages implies that degrees … admission scores at the course level) using data on high school achievement scores of students admitted to these courses. Unlike … selectivity of undergraduate degree programmes plays an important role in explaining the variation in the relative graduate wages …