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We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker is (worker unobserved ability), what he does (the...
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This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking … more seniority in employment, iv) are employed in smaller firms, and v) are covered by a collective agreement at the firm …
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This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary … and international experience as control variables. The author addresses the possible selection to employment bias by using …
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wages. The results suggest that migrants are better educated and obtain higher wages than non-migrants, controlling for …
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Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
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