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Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330135
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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective
Wang, Le - 2012
particularly worrisome, suggesting that the previous IV results are robust. In particular, using China Household Income Project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291347
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How does education affect the earnings distribution in urban China?
Wang, Le - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … China during economic transition. We find that returns to education are generally more pronounced for individuals in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282321
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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274569
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262376
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262368
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266054
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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003
China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use …% annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13%. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274202
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure of East and West German wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294697