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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Over the past three decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously. In 1979, only one-in-ten (10.4 percent) black workers had a four-year college degree or more. By 2011, more than one in four (26.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the...

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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

Sloane, Peter J.; O'Leary, Nigel C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and attempting to control for...

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The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Between 1990/91 and 2000/01 the number of male undergraduates in Britain increased by over one-third while the number of female undergraduates has increased nearly twofold. Given this substantial increase in supply we would expect some impact on the wage premium for recent graduates unless...

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The U.S. workforce is substantially older and better-educated than it was at the end of the 1970s. The typical worker in 2010 was seven years older than in 1979. In 2010, over one-third of US workers had a four-year college degree or more, up from just one-fifth in 1979. Given that older and...

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Status Concerns and the Organization of Work.

Fershtman, C.; Weiss, Y.; Hvide, H.K. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 2001

firm. We assume a competitive labor market with unobservable effort, where firms condition wages on output as incentive for …

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Bad Jobs on the Rise

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...

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The rate of return to private schooling

Wright, Robert E. - 1999

This paper examines the relationship between "school quality" and earnings in the United Kingdom. The specific focus is on evaluating the effect that private schooling has on hourly wage rates. It is well known that private (i.e. fee-paying) schools compared to state schools score higher on most...

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Using Wages to Infer School Quality

Speakman, Robert; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

) interstate differences in wages are not consistent with a simple school quality-wage relation; we cannot assume a simple national … school quality evaluation appears insufficient to resolve the ambiguous link between school quality and wages. In addition … finally, (7) it is unclear whether the positive correlations between wages and either school expenditures or teachers' wages …

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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...

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The long-run effects of attending an elite school: Evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long- run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK dis- trict that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using...

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