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Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences / Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel, Tyler Ransom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashworth, Jared.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24160.
- NBER working paper series no. w24160
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and work decisions that young men make in early adulthood, and quantify how they affect wages using a generalized Mincerian specification. Our results highlight the need to account for dynamic selection and changes in composition when analyzing changes in wage returns. In particular, we find that ignoring the selectivity of accumulated work experiences results in overstatement of the returns to education.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2017.
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