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University quality and graduate wages in the UK
Hussain, Iftikhar; Mcnally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2009
deviation rise in university quality. However, the relationship between university quality and wages is highly non-linear, with …
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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earning data
Dale, Stacy; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011
We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278598
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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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Estimating the social value of higher education: willingness to pay for community and technical colleges
Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2009
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269055
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational … variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294525
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational … variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262505
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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained …
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Count your hours: returns to education in Poland
Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009
measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 … on whether we use net or gross, and monthly or hourly wages, and show how important selection correction is for the ….7% and for women from 8.0% to 13.4% when we compare results using net monthly wages without correcting for labor market …
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Trade liberalization and the returns to education: A pseudo-panel approach
Dickerson, Andy; Green, Francis; Arbache, Jorge Saba - 2001
We investigate the impact of trade liberalization on wages and the returns to education in Brazil. Our pseudo …-section estimated returns in developing countries. Trade liberalization impacted on wages and the returns to education in both traded … and non-traded sectors, suggesting important spill-over effects. Wages in both sectors fell in the period immediately …
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The GED
Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274263