Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about … seven per cent for those born in the early 1970s. Cohort effects in men's returns to education are less obvious, but we do …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 … rather increasing and are higher than male ones in the public sector. Moreover, not all education degrees yield the same …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 … rather increasing and are higher than male ones in the public sector. Moreover, not all education degrees yield the same …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about … seven per cent for those born in the early 1970s. Cohort effects in men's returns to education are less obvious, but we do …