The Changing Pattern of Wage Returns to Education and its Implications
By C. Colclough, Geeta Kingdon, Harry Anthony Patrinos *. 2010
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It is commonly believed that labour-market returns to education are highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence reviewed in this article suggests that the pattern is changing. The causes of such changes, and their implications for both education and labour-market policy, are explored.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Kuznets curve of human capital inequality: 1870–2010 (2012, result): “[9]) have contradicted the above evidence as they have found increasing rather than decreasing returns to education in the recent past.”
- Returns to education in India: Some recent evidence (2012, unknown): “High and rising returns to tertiary education indicate that large public subsidies on higher education should be avoided (Colclough et al. 2010).”