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Nonlinearity in the Return to Education [PDF]
Journal of Applied Economics, 2005 This study estimates marginal rates of return to investment in schooling in 12 countries. Significant systematic nonlinearity in the marginal rate of return is found. In particular, the marginal rate of return is increasing significantly at low levels of education, and decreasing significantly at high levels of education.
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HUMAN CAPITAL VERSUS THE SIGNALING HYPOTHESES: THE CASE OF INDONESIA
Journal of Indonesian Economy and Business, 2016 Education positively affects a person's income. It can be explained in two ways. Firstly, education directly increases the productivity of a person, which is in accordance with the views of the theory of human capital.
Nenny Hendajany +2 more
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Different Impact Channels of Education on Poverty
Estudios Gerenciales, 2010 This article analyzes both the monetary and non-monetary effects of the education level of the head of the household on poverty. We propose that schooling returns should not be thought as a single number - usually the schooling coefficient in an income ...
Blanca Zuluaga Díaz
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MEASURING RETURNS ON INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION: LESSONS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE EDUCATION POLICY [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2021 The relationship between education and labor market is significant and complex. Education increases employment opportunities and reduces the chance of occurrence and duration of unemployment.
Hatidza Jahic , Amila Pilav-Velic
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Returns to Education in Bangladesh [PDF]
Education Economics, 2006 Abstract This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey. Returns are estimated separately for rural and urban samples, males, females and private‐sector employees. Substantial heterogeneity in returns is observed; for example, estimates are higher for urban (than rural sample) and ...
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Disparities in earnings and education in India
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2014 This paper studies the impact of different levels of education, religion, caste as well as the impact of living in urban and rural communities on earnings in India.
P. Geetha Rani
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The Gender Gap in Early-Career Wages of Universities’ and Vocational Education Institutes’ Graduates
Вопросы образования, 2021 Data from the Federal Statistical Sample Survey of Employment of Vocational Education and Higher Education Graduates is used to measure the gender wage gap and analyze the factors explaining gender inequality.
Margarita Kiryushina, Victor Rudakov
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Returns to Education in India [PDF]
World Development, 2014 Summary In India both men and women with more education live in households with greater consumption per capita. Yet aggregating across age cohorts and states, an extra year of education brings male cohorts only 4% more consumption and provides no additional consumption for female cohorts.
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Are there civic returns to education? [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2004 Abstract The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes provide some of the most important justifications for government intervention in the market for education. In this study, I present evidence on whether these externalities exist.
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Returns to schooling in the Portuguese economy: a reassessment
Public Sector Economics, 2018 This paper provides an overview of the evolution of private returns to schooling in the Portuguese economy along the 1986-2013 period. We estimate the returns separately for men and women, at the mean and along the conditional wage distribution.
Maria Manuel Campos, Hugo Reis
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