economics of education andorganizational economics. The dissertation covers papers which link thesetwo research areas. The … lowability students into higher education, universities increase requirementsto deter undesired students. In a duopoly with ….Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on …

may be having an impact on wages over and above traditional human capital indicators such as education and work experience …

In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate … regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient ona years of education variable in a log wage … effect on the earnings of an individual from participation in education. Moreover, the size of the effect seems large …

This paper analyses the effects of individual investments in four field-specific educational resources on wages in the … knowledge. Second, economic resources are expected to affect wages positively. Third, people whose educational resources match …,373) generally support the hypotheses, be it that matches increase wages in three out of four branches: economic, communicative and …

through the undergraduate programs of an education that is enriched by the intellectual and cognitive diversity that is …

Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the patterns of short-run adjustment. Money wages are very stable, being … periodicities in the patterns of residuals derived from trend-line estimates of money wages confirm a supposition that urban …