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The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
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The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual's educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922852
the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …
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paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the …
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The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale … and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … self-reported reported in 1995 on the C&B follow-up survey. In this analysis, we use administrative earnings data to …
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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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years of work experience at which individuals' observed earnings approximately equal what they would have been based on …
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