Returns to Foreign Education: Yet Another But Different Cross Country Analysis

Max Gruetter ()
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Max Gruetter: Lucerne Statistics

No 1615, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard Mincer-equation with the extension that I additionally allow for country specific returns to education. Results show that there are important differences between the returns to different education systems within Switzerland in the value of the basic education on the one hand and the return to an additional year of education on the other hand.

Keywords: return to education; immigration; international (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 I21 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2005-05
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