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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage … the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
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Does adult education at upper secondary level influence annual wage earnings?
Stenberg, Anders - 2007
Adult education at upper secondary level (AE) is an integral part of the Swedish educational system. Of the cohort born in 1970, about one third has at some point been registered in AE. This evaluation of AE is the first to use register data on the course credits actually attained. The results...
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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education
Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
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Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education
Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317956
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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...
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Returns to Education in Professional Football
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2011
After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft. We analyze the starting salaries and signing...
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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
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Assessing the returns to education in Georgia
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in...
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