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 …

, employers are willing to pay significant wage premia, especially for global and local lingua franca. (3) For international … destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …

on workers' expectations about future wage increases. Specifically, general training is associated with a much larger … control, while we do not find any relationship in the case of specific training. Actual post-training wages for those who …