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Title: Essays on Human Capital Externalities and Migration
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1. Guo, Junjie
Essays on Human Capital Externalities and Migration
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Census of Population; College Education; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Wage Growth

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Chapter 1 shows that wage grows faster with experience in labor markets with larger shares of college-educated workers (college share). An instrumental variable and panel data with individual fixed effects are used to address the potential endogeneity of college share and the sorting of workers across labor markets respectively. The effect of the college share of a labor market is shown to persist after workers leave the market, suggesting that a larger college share raises returns to experience through the accumulation of human capital valuable in all markets.
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Guo, Junjie. Essays on Human Capital Externalities and Migration. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016.