different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …

a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable … career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …

-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

In analyses of labour market returns to education three competing theoretical approaches dominate the empirical … research literature: education as productive skills, education as positional good, and social closure. We argue that, while … dimension of education is considered. We present a theoretical approach that addresses this horizontal dimension of education by …

framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have … change than monetary factors. -- career change ; occupational change ; rate of return to education ; wage differentials … ; teacher wages ; vocational education and training …

administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation … best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic …