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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2003
It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293827
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326044
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - 2009
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271310
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Are computer skills the new basic skills? : The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2003
skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills … has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but … that the higher wages of computer users are unrelated to computer skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277177
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK 'college premium' for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277815
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Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2000
. The study could not find any significant effects of unemployment duration on subsequent wages in addition to the incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262397
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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262231
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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015
paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513150
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2015
-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513221
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319365