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Social returns to education in a developing country
Filiztekin, Alpay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper estimates social returns to education in Turkey. Most evidence on spillovers from human capital comes mostly from developed countries, and estimates vary from country to country. The paper finds that social returns to education are around 3-4%, whereas private returns per year of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372568
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Wage inequality and returns to schooling in Europe: a semi-parametric approach using EU-SILC data
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we apply a semi-parametric approach (quantile regression - QR) to the last 2007 wave of the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in 8 European countries. We find that wages increase with education and this holds true across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458508
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Inter-industry Wage Premia in Portugal: Evidence from EU-SILC data
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers’ educational skills. We use the 2007 EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its high inter-industry wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458518
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The US/Canada Difference in Postsecondary Educational Choice
Hui, Taylor Shek-wai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper attempts to tackle the puzzle of why more Canadians choose community colleges over universities than their American counterparts, when previous research has suggested that the return to community college education is low in Canada. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559297
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Are educational mismatches responsible for the ‘inequality increasing effect’ of education?
Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper asks whether educational mismatches can account for the positive association between education and wage inequality found in the data. We use two different data sources, the European Community Household Panel and the Portuguese Labour Force Survey, and consider several types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564524
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Education and Wage Inequality in Portugal
Budria, Santiago; Nunes, Celso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837544
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La elección del sector laboral y los retornos a la educación en Guatemala
Alejos, Luis Alejandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper estimates the returns to education in Guatemala, while attempting to account for self-employment and the presence of workers without monetary earnings in the economy, factors whose omission can potentially lead to sample selection bias. The analysis uses data from the Survey of Living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110200
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A Theory of Gender Wage Gap
Jellal, Mohamed; Nordman, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015594
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Bérkonvergencia az EU-csatlakozás előtt és után: gazdasági összefüggések, tapasztalatok és lehetséges fejlődési pályák
Gács, János; Hárs, Ágnes; Hüttl, Antónia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The article analyzes the requirement recently formulated by different parties of the accession process: the candidate countries should raise their wage level close to the average of the EU even before they join the union. The authors show that wage convergence, defined this way, has no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110057
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Good Firms, Worker Flows and Productivity
Serafinelli, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located … with HWF experience increases the productivity of other (non-HWF) firms. A simulation indicates that worker flows explain … 10-15 percent of the productivity gains experienced by other firms when HWFs in the same industry are added to a local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111048