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This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during … unobservable student characteristics. The ranking of university subjects based on relative earnings premia is sensitive not only to … occupational earnings information from the New Earnings Survey (NES). The paper estimates relative earnings premia by degree …
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This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during … unobservable student characteristics. The ranking of university subjects based on relative earnings premia is sensitive not only to … occupational earnings information from the New Earnings Survey (NES). The paper estimates relative earnings premia by degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261604
The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the … longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also … relationship between earnings and the latter two. Failure to properly account for this is likely to yield biased parameter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984512
The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the … longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also … relationship between earnings and the latter two. Failure to properly account for this is likely to yield biased parameter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949387
This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during … unobservable student characteristics. The ranking of university subjects based on relative earnings premia is sensitive not only to … occupational earnings information from the New Earnings Survey (NES). The paper estimates relative earnings premia by degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319703
Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...
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We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We … that the positive earnings returns are explained by human capital. The signal favors mostly less advantaged groups …, implying that reducing information frictions about students' skills could potentially shrink earnings gaps. Our results imply …
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This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261111
A generalization of the Probit model is presented, with the extended skew-normal cumulative distribution as a link function, which can be used for modelling a binary response variable in the presence of selectivity bias. The estimate of the parameters via ML is addressed, and inference on the...
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We estimate the determinants of earnings for both the self-employed and wage/salary sectors in an economy undergoing …-employed and wage/salary sectors. However, when we also account for the dispersion of earnings, the structure of the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334363