This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … education continues. …

Education is widely recognized as one of the most important determinants of earnings in the labour market. A main … aspect of the relationship between education and earnings is the wage premium between workers with higher and lower education …. In this study I analyze the evolution of wage premiums of attaining further education in the Republic of Cyprus. The …

We hypothesize that the role of education in driving wage inequality is not the same across three racial groups in the … United States. Using the Current Population Survey (CPS) data for the period 2000-2021, we show that education weighs at most … 33% in explaining the wage inequality. Further, we observe a decrease in the role of education in explaining wage …

/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …

substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …