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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262505
We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
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The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...
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throughout the period, partly explained by a rapid growth in demand for unskilled labour, which helped maintain low-skilled wages …-2001. We argue that for women, low-skilled wages were kept up by the introduction of the minimum wage in 2000, and high skilled … wages fell due to a rapid rise in the supply of highly qualified women. The Irish example shows that skill-biased technical …
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Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …
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We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...
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We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262356
It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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