demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our … view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women …

This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six … the unconditional earnings distribution. Unlike previous studies, and in contrast with the expectations prompted by the … recent cohorts (the high skilled), have suffered, compared to the previous cohorts, an earnings penalty much more severe than …

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 …

reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. … empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The …

reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. It should be noted, however, that due to the characteristics … empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The …

education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …