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between education and wage inequality in eight European countries. Our results corroborate the positive relation between wage … increase and education and it holds true across the whole distribution. This effect is generally stronger at the highest …
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educational investments. We analyze data from India to highlight gender disparities in the perceived returns to education and the …
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A lengthy literature estimating the returns to education has largely ignored the for-profit sector. In this paper, we … associate's degree students attend for an average of 2.6 years, this translates to a 4% return per year of education in a for …
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In this article we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers' educational skills. We use the last 2007 wave of EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its traditional high...
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that business education enhanced their ethical character, the lower their wages, holding other aspects of their education …
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We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural … sectors and measure the portion of China's recent growth attributable to this channel. Using detailed micro-level data and an … empirical model that allows for the endogenous selection of education and sector of employment, we estimate the relationship …
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by years of education. Log-wages are regressed on a measure of education, which is a position on a scale of certificates … nonlinear model of education choices and cannot reject the assumption that the data is generated by a job-market signalling …
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educational transitions are correlated with earnings and returns to education. Proportions of people in age-education groups tend … to have negative associations with aggregated earnings. Workers with secondary education completed experience negative … effects on their earnings by having lower education than university graduates (education effect) and by representing a bigger …
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Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...
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