This Paper examines cross-country variations in the return to schooling for men and women and considers some of the stylised facts that have emerged from the extensive international literature on private returns to schooling. ...
In this paper we extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the rate of return to schooling by treating the return as a random
coefficient. One motivation is that if the increase in supply ...
We extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. If the rapid expansion in participation in higher education has been ...
Denny, Kevin(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2003-09-11)
This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-07)
This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-07-22)
This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the International Adult Literacy Survey and ...
This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the wages of men. It is important to know what the return on educational investments might be since a high return implies that there might be too little of such investments. ...
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leaves in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals ...
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm(Institute for Fiscal Studies2000, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-04-20)
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model
the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a
multinomial logit model to analyze whether ...
One of the distinctive features of schooling in England and Wales had been its stratified nature: parents may pay to send their children to "public" (i.e. private) schools, or use state-provided schooling which in turn has ...