Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of earnings ability propitiated by schooling when years of education are …

We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in … Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference … returns to bilingual education and no effects on employment, hours of work or occupation. Results are robust to education …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … wages. The results suggest that migrants are better educated and obtain higher wages than non-migrants, controlling for … other factors (including education), and also obtain higher returns to their education. In other words, the more educated …

not match their educational level, settling for lower wages than their peers. This raises the question, how these …

In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the … experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map … Statistics data for each occupation and area. Finally, we develop a model capable of projecting the trajectory of wages across …