Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with industry level data we estimate the external
return to schooling for a repeated cross-section of individuals in the UK over the period 1994 …

The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and
parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both …

We explore the possibility that different instruments may affect different margins of the
schooling distribution, and consistent with recent evidence we find a large, significant …

This study explores the evolution of private returns to education in Finland by using a simple
Mincer earnings equation framework and cross-sections of the Finnish Labour Force Survey …

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 …

This paper contributes to the literature by separately analysing the course enrolment and
completion effects of vocational education and training (VET) as well as higher education …

The estimation of the return to a year of schooling, both for the individual and society more
generally, has been the focus of considerable debate in the economics literature. Simple …

We revisit the question of what is the rate of return to education in Great Britain. We make
two contributions. Firstly, we re-assess the robustness of Harmon and Walker (1995) …

PARTICIPATION IN post-compulsory education has grown dramatically in the UK in recent
times. Participation in higher education doubled in just a few years from the mid 1960s with …

Over the last few decades, considerable research effort has been devoted to the
measurement of the private individual returns to education, namely the individual wage gain …