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The returns to schooling unveiled
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker is (worker unobserved ability), what he does (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819808
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652813
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking … more seniority in employment, iv) are employed in smaller firms, and v) are covered by a collective agreement at the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670643
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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience
Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015
This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428026
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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269276
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Experience and Technology Adoption
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2004
experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that … technological change is an important explanation for changes in experience premia. We find a complementarity between existing human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261816
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Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling
Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2000
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274097
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Employer learning and the returns to schooling
Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2000
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326420
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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411235
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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451997