smaller economic returns, such as education and humanities degrees, especially for men. …

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … the conventional overeducation variables can. The paper finds that the prevalence of overskilling decreases with education … at least for Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general …

people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A …

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 …

to further education. Our analysis suggests that about 10 percent of the total wage dispersion of young people aged 18 …-25 (and already working) is generated at the school level. This also implies that the correlation between the wages of any two …