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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - 2009
variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898128
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213
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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
Dickson, Matthew - 2009
variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155575
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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium." The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318481
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Labour market expectations and occupational choice : evidence from teaching
Fullard, Joshua - 2023
Using new data on teachers' intentions to leave the profession, subjective expectations about labour market outcomes and a modified discrete-choice experiment we find that i) teachers are systematically misinformed about population earnings, and misinformation is correlated with attrition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229081
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Starting school and ADHD : when is it time to fly the nest?
Nicodemo, Catia; Nicoletti, Cheti; Vidiella-Martin, Joaquim - 2024
Does deferring school entry for children born just before the enrollment cutoff date improve their mental well …) in England. Higher ADHD rates among early school starters are often attributed to a peer-comparison bias caused by … recommendations include sorting children by age and refining diagnostic decision-making in early primary school. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576933
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Heterogeneous effects of mass academisation in England
Neri, Lorenzo; Pasini, Elisabetta - 2018
The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control … academy or joining an academy chain. However, the majority of studies have focused solely on the impact of school conversion … impact of the two different models of school governance on students' achievement. We exploit an instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787893
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK college premiumʺ for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999