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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...

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Chapter 13 Using Wages to Infer School Quality

Speakman, Robert; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 813-864). 2006

) 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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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012

Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...

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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience

Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015

This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

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Private returns to education in urban Cameroon

Zamo Akono, Christian Marie; Tsafack-Nanfosso, Roger A. - In: Business and Economic Research : BER 3 (2013) 2, pp. 23-37

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The impact of MBA programme attributes on post-MBA salaries

Elliott, Caroline; Soo, Kwok Tong - In: Education economics 24 (2016) 3/4, pp. 427-443

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Exploring the role of labour market uncertainty in explaining differences in rates of return to education in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - In: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES 14 (2014) 3, pp. 89-104

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The earnings returns to graduating with honors : evidence from law graduates

Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...

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Determinants of urban labour earnings in Tanzania, 2000/01-06

Leyaro, Vincent; Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Morrissey, … - 2014

, education has no additional effect on public sector wages, returns to education are concave for the self-employed but non …

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