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Wage Premia for Education and Location, By Gender and Race in South Africa

Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano - 1998

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...

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Owning economic reforms: A comparative study of Ghana and Tanzania

Tsikata, Yvonne M. - 2001

This paper compares reform ownership in Ghana and Tanzania over the past two decades. It finds that on several … dimensions, Ghana’s early economic reforms enjoyed a high degree of ownership. That ownership was not embedded, however, in a …-generation reforms, the move to multi-party democracy and the exponential increase in aid contributed to a decline in ownership in Ghana …

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Rates of return to schooling and the quality of education in England and Wales

Campbell, David - 2001

Raising the quality of education has been one of the main objectives of the current government in Britain. By devoting more resources to the education sector, it is expected that pupils will achieve higher educational attainment by the time their years of compulsory schooling ends. This study...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus

Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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