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results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is … stronger in the private sector. However, the returns to tertiary education are higher in the private sector. …
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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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-groups according to age and education. The public sector wage penalty for males has decreased recently over time and is larger for the …
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We document and analyse the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education in Portugal between 1994 and … school system and in the structure of labour demand. We conclude that assessing the relative value of vocational education …
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The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find out whether this premium is affected by the fact of...
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being educationally mismatched at the mean of the conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead,...
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education graduates in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses data from the nationwide tracer survey of Polish … education institution (HEI) on a rich set of individuals' characteristics. In order to reduce the bias due to selection to …
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allowing us measuring among others the quality of education from high school. This wealth of information is a condition to … quality of education also correlates to the educational mismatch. We find a nonconditional wage penalty associated to …
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