hypothesis is tantamount to ascertaining if the marginal rate of return to education increases discontinuously for the years when … case of Pakistan. Using the IFPRI-sponsored, 1987 Pakistan Survey of Rural Education, Migration and Employment (PSREME), it … completion in determining earnings. According to the results of this paper, the sheepskin effects prove to be robust both to an …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … 1980s Indian premium is mainly due to higher returns to education and experience, a combination of price and endowment … by the observed convergence in returns to education; the endowment effect is driven by faster increase in education …

and domestic firms) and remaining differences in wage levels and growth rates. We find that much of the average earnings … similar workers and firms, we find a two to four percent earnings gap between workers in domestic and foreign-owned firms …-firm employment, as workers who return to domestically-owned firms do not appear to retain the additional earnings associated with …

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability …, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for those with higher ability indicating that education can act as a … across the conditional distribution of earnings. The results show that the return is lower for higher quantiles, suggesting …

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …