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Wage Returns to Human Capital Resulting from an Extra Year of Primary School : Evidence from Egypt

Assaad, Ragui A.; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Dayioğlu, Meltem; … - 2023

In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which reduced compulsory primary schooling from 6 to 5 years. Since this policy changed the duration of primary school while providing the same diploma, we can estimate the human capital...

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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Estimating the return to college in Britain using regression and propensity score matching

Fan, Wen - 2011

association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …

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Qualifications and earnings in Britain : how reliable are conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education?

Dearden, Lorraine - 1999 - Revised version

reasonable estimates of the true causal impact of education on wages. In the UK it would appear that the effects of measurement … that education is exogenous, are reasonable estimates of the true causal impact of education on wages. In the UK it would …

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Rates of return to degrees across British regions

O'Leary, Nigel (contributor); Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2006

Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...

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Rates of Return to Degrees Across British Regions

O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2006

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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

Rycx, Francois - 2015

The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the...

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

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The Returns to Education for the United Kingdom

Silles, Mary A. - 2007

This paper uses data from the General Household Survey to examine the economic returns to education between 1985 and 2003 for men and women in the UK. The evidence suggests that the returns to education have increased for men and declined for women. Quantile regression estimates illustrate that...

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