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With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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higher risk of subsequent unemployment and lower trajectory for future earnings after re-entry, it is crucial to gain a …
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degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …
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The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be … consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution … new colleges. Although ranking by earnings equations provide some information about the relation to earnings, endogeneity …
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and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with shortcomings. This paper examines the returns to college education among … earnings. My findings confirm that college quality plays a crucial role in shaping both incentives and earnings in the Japanese … significant impact of tenure and firm-size on earnings, and the similarity in the earnings profiles between blue- and white …
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016374
and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with shortcomings. This paper examines the returns to college education among … earnings. My findings confirm that college quality plays a crucial role in shaping both incentives and earnings in the Japanese … significant impact of tenure and firm-size on earnings, and the similarity in the earnings profiles between blue- and white …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072666