recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …’ and spouse's education are considerably higher than the OLS estimates for returns to schooling, while the estimates which …

This article presents new evidence on urban–rural migrant wage differentials of workers in full-time employment in … conditional and unconditional quantile treatment effects for education and for migrant status. Particular attention is paid to … education are significant, especially when we account for endogeneity; (2) long-term migrants seem disadvantaged, mainly due to …

The purpose of this paper is to study how education shapes the allocation of talent. To model the link between … education and the allocation of talent, we add two features to a Spence (1974) type of two-sector education model. First …, performance contracts give a worker incentives to choose the sector where (she believes she is) most productive. Second, education …

. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling …

permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …

increase of women’s productivity and hourly real wages, switched the situation and involved the new incorporation of women into …

positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …

Education is a key determinant of earnings, as several South African studies have confirmed. Years of schooling … completed, however, provides an imperfect approximation of the effective level of education achieved, mainly due to variations … in the quality of education received. This study addresses this issue by, for the first time in South Africa …

other OECD countries, New Zealand appears to have relatively high rates of participation in tertiary education, and at least …-pronged strategy. Firstly, policies should aim to increase the incidence of world-class tertiary education and research relevant to … industry. Given already high levels of public and private investment in tertiary education, this should involve redesign of …