This paper examines the causal effect of education on earnings in Israel. The Ordinary Least Squares coefficient of … education on earnings: The first is to use proxy variables - variables that are correlated with the unobserved ability of the … individual, such as mother’s education and siblings' wage. The second method is to use the amendment to the Compulsory Education …

distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages …

-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of … our longitudinal data enables us to look at the complex inter-relationship between social class, ability, education and … labour market outcomes. In Britain the production of human capital (cognitive ability and education) has become less …