A Note on the Returns to Human Capital in the Eighties: Evidence from Twelve Countries

Wilhelm Lorenz, Joachim Wagner () and Karel van den Bosch

No 54, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Based on identically specified human capital earnings functions of the Mincer-type, this paper reports estimates of the rates of return to human capital for full-time working male employees in twelve countries. The results are compared across countries and over time of the decade of the eighties.

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Date: 1990-07
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Published in Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (G.Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1993) Bd. (Vol.) 211/1-2

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