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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data

Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014

relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of … aggregate density, we also estimate whether the composition of the local labor market in terms of education is related to the …

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The gender gap of return on education across West European countries

Mendolicchio, Concetta; Rhein, Thomas - In: International journal of manpower 35 (2014) 3, pp. 219-249

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Wage inequality determinants in European Union countries

Afonso, Oscar; Albuquerque, Ana Lurdes; Almeida, Alexandre - In: Applied economics letters 20 (2013) 10/12, pp. 1170-1173

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Education and skill mismatches : wage and job satisfaction consequences

Badillo-Amador, Lourdes; Vila, Luis-Eduardo - In: International journal of manpower 34 (2013) 5, pp. 416-428

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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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