In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …

education. Furthermore, the authors find that premarket locus of control, defined as locus of control measured at the time of … schooling ­ before the individual enters the labor market ­ does not significantly affect later wages after controlling for … education decisions. In light of the existing literature, which finds mostly positive effects of contemporaneous locus of …

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … penalties relative to workers with the same education in jobs that only require their educational level. Similarly, workers with … less education than required for their jobs earn wage rewards. These departures from the Mincer human capital earnings …

endogeneity and measurement error. We find significantly positive returns to language skills and demonstrate that education is an … important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not … depend on education, we find that child and adult migrants exhibit similar returns to language skills …

investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …

This paper analyses the determinants and consequences of horizontal job-education mismatches, an increasingly relevant … topic in debates about education and labour markets. This issue reflects the articulation of educational fields and … occupations in the labour market. We evaluate the determinants of job-education mismatches and their impact on salaries of …

careers. With best practice regression discontinuity methods we find at best a zero return to the additional education for men … year of education …

over- and under-education. We also find that earnings returns to required years of education exceed the returns with over …- and under-education, with a greater earnings penalty associated with under-education. We test hypotheses on three … higher than average public expenditure on education serves to improve economic performance. We further examine results …

We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in … Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference … returns to bilingual education and no effects on employment, hours of work or occupation. Results are robust to education …