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Peer reviewedMak, Kitty – Education Economics, 2000
Examines education's influences on Canada's employment, wages, and industrial production, using 1990 cross-sectional, provincially grouped statistical data. Workers disaggregated by educational attainment are substitutes for one another. Capital and all labor groups disaggregated by education are complements. Earnings differentials between better-…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkHeywood, John S.; Wei, Xiangdong – Education Economics, 2004
This paper directly tests for differences in returns to education between the employed and self-employed in Hong Kong. Using a step-function, we find significantly smaller returns for the self-employed, suggesting that in the highly competitive labor market of Hong Kong education plays a signaling role. This pattern persists for both genders, when…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Self Employment
Peer reviewedNewell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry – Education Economics, 1999
Provides cross-country estimates on private rates of return to higher-education qualifications across various transitional economies spanning Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Rates tend to rise in most transitional economies over the period considered. Rate variabilities help explain variabilities in wage…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economics, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Stenberg, Anders; Wikstrom, Magnus – Education Economics, 2004
This paper studies the determinants of age-specific employment rates among Swedish males, focusing on the effect of education on employment. We use cohort specific data for the time period 1984-1996 covering male cohorts aged 21-45. It is found that aggregate age-group-specific employment rates increase with the proportion of the cohort with an…
Descriptors: Males, Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDolton, Peter – Education Economics, 1996
Describes an econometric modeling of the labor market for teachers in an "administered" market setting in which the government partially controls the main determinants of demand and is very influential in setting teachers' wages. Reviews relevant econometric literature and shows market forces' crucial role. Discusses economic policy…
Descriptors: Econometrics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHan, Jong-Ha – Education Economics, 1994
Reviews the role of education and human-resource development in the process of modern Korean economic growth. Korea is becoming increasingly industrialized and is rapidly reorganizing its labor-intensive industries into knowledge and high-tech industries. The next phase of the educational and human resources challenge will be to develop…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Progress, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education
