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With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at …
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scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
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degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … earnings. …
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- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … earnings …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score …. Cumulated over fifteen years, the time span of income data for my sample, the net premium of attending the elite university …
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