for most qualifications. The results from the paper suggest that conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education … obtain no formal qualifications. There is also some evidence that individuals with lower tastes for education, have … significantly higher marginal returns to certain education qualifications. We also find that post-school qualifications …

' earnings in the labor market. Card and Kureges (1996) argue that the young sample that Betts (1995) uses understates the … effects of the measures of school quality on earnings. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the … measures of school quality on earnings at older age, using a recent version of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth …

international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian … rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in …