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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
higher education. The expected return to education in terms of wages also affects educational decisions significantly. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724
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Förändrade arbetsmarknadsförhållanden för högre utbildade? En studie av forskarutbildade i Finland 1990 - 2004
Stén, Susanna - 2009
of postgraduate students who graduated every year increased at a fast pace. In this thesis doctorate and licentiate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273024
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Class size and class heterogeneity
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271281
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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2005
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297452
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262046
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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/10010321632
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324788
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001
, tenure and the fact of using hourly or monthly wages. At this stage the use of the simple specification of the Mincer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262504
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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/10010263972
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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