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Changes in returns to education in India, 1983-1994 : by gender, age-cohort and location

Duraisamy, Palanigounder - 2000

recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by …There is hardly any estimate of the returns to schooling in India based on a national level representative data for the … secondary level and declines thereafter. There is evidence of substantial gender and rural-urban differences in the returns to …

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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...

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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

, 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 within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis

Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2011 - Revised: December 27, 2010

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...

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