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Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - 2017

skills enhance relative short-term earnings and (2) that general skills enhance relative long-term earnings. Empirical … secondary school programs, this study provides a first exploration of individuals' earnings across nearly complete careers. The … descriptive earnings patterns indicate support for both hypotheses (1) and (2). The support holds when controlling for GPA and …

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Microeconometric Analyses on Determinants of Individual Labour Market Outcomes

Simon, Lisa K. - 2019

deregulated craft occupations, the effect on earnings and employment for incumbent workers was slightly negative. The reform also …

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Jobs for Young University Graduates : Is It Worth Having a Degree?

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2004

This study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast pace and the share of university graduates in...

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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001

Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...

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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: the case of Italian manufacturing

Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009

We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock of human capital available to firms and survey information on firm characteristics to...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland

Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip; Smyth, Emer - 2008

education-job mismatch, both education-level and field, has on earnings is also taken into consideration. The results derived …

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