wages and hours and the returns to education. …

. Besides the shape of the distribution it has to be checked whether labor market conditions such as minimum wages with the …

This paper provides empirical evidence about the relationship between wages and their determinants in the Spanish … have nox effect on the evolution of wages. The variable that explains the evolution of wages in the long term is prices …, with wages showing slightly inflationary behavior. In the short term, wages are explained by their past values, reflecting …

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 …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

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 …

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 …

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 …