This paper provides estimates of the private financial return to education based on large samples of monozygotic (MZ … labour force on a full-time basis, which comes from a register that is independent of the education registers; and the strong … assortative mating in the data which allows us to use twins spouse’s education as an instrument. We also address a further concern …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed description of the type of education reached by the … Danish population to calculate different measures of earnings risk by education. Our long panel data set also allows us to … risks. Hence, we state a return-risk trade-off for the human capital investments in Denmark …