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Title: Ability, Schooling and Wages: Going Beyond the National Longitudinal Surveys
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Borraz, Fernando Miguel |
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Ability, Schooling and Wages: Going Beyond the National Longitudinal Surveys Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economic Association Meeting, 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Census of Population; Educational Returns; Schooling; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper estimates returns to education in the US using information from two datasets, the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS and NLSY79) and the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). The high correlation between schooling and ability did not allow the separate identification of each effect. The PUMS dataset contains information on wages and education but not on ability and can therefore be exploited to improve the precision of the NLS and NLSY79 estimates. The results suggest a positive but not increasing over time wage gap only for the most able during the 80's, and between 1980 and 2000. |
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Borraz, Fernando Miguel. "Ability, Schooling and Wages: Going Beyond the National Longitudinal Surveys." Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economic Association Meeting, 2004. |