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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2021
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … at least for Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general … patterns of overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316738
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What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the 'Employee or Entrepreneur' Dichotomy
Nolan, Michael A.; Burke, Andrew E.; Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2021
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches which categorise an individual as an entrepreneur by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317438
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education : New Evidence from Australia
Chan, Gavin - 2012
the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We … find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD countries compared with non … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105424
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A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia
Wen, Le - 2017
Non-English Speaking, Backgrounds relative to the native-born population in Australia. Based on nine years of longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940841
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The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers : Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
Seltzer, Andrew - 2012
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104654
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129090
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Differences by Degree : Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
Walker, Ian - 2010
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136727
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University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium : Evidence from the UK
Walker, Ian - 2017
We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), matched to mean standardised admission scores at the institution *subject* cohort level using data on high school achievement scores of students admitted to these courses....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963835
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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
Dickson, Matthew - 2009
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155575
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Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules : An Application to Wage Decompositions
Fernández‐Val, Iván - 2018
investigation of the determinants of female wages and wage growth in the United Kingdom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928503