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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309044
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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The mis-education of women in Afghanistan : from wage premiums to economic losses
Najam, Rafiuddin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Kattan, Raja … - 2024
differences for education between men and women, documenting a significantly larger premium for women. This sharp distinction is … causal as demonstrated by analysis of the compulsory schooling law. Recent bans on women's education and employment are … projected to have significant negative impacts on women's future schooling, wage growth, and national income growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072133
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The mis-education of women in Afghanistan : from wage premiums to economic losses
Najam, Rafiuddin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Kattan, Raja … - 2024
differences for education between men and women, documenting a significantly larger premium for women. This sharp distinction is … causal as demonstrated by analysis of the compulsory schooling law. Recent bans on women's education and employment are … projected to have significant negative impacts on women's future schooling, wage growth, and national income growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062020
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Sources of wage growth
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022
This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170247
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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited
Yashiv, Eran - 2021
rather than negative. The latter finding entails substantial increases in mean wages and reduction in wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319378
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Changes in Male Labor Supply and Wages
Devereux, Paul J. - 2003
In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men …. Some observers have interpreted this positive association between changes in wages and labor supply as reflecting movement … prior studies. Analysis of Census data shows little relationship between changes in relative wages at the state level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086243
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043685
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316685