The Effects of Education and Health on Wages and Productivity
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This paper by Matthew Forbes, Andrew Barker and Stewart Turner was released on 18 March 2010.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 134 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations and Glossary - Overview - including key points (PDF - 65 Kb)
- Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 81 Kb)
1.1 Research objectives and the analytical framework - Chapter 2 Literature review (PDF - 49 Kb)
2.1 Education and wages
2.2 Health and wages - Chapter 3 The model and econometric issues (PDF - 66 Kb)
3.1 The basic model
3.2 Sample selection bias and the Heckman approach
3.3 Other econometric issues
3.4 Estimating the potential wages of persons not currently employed - Chapter 4 Data and variables (PDF - 56 Kb)
4.1 Education and health variables
4.2 Developing a two-stage process for estimating the effects of the target conditions - Chapter 5 Results (PDF - 60 Kb)
5.1 Marginal effects of education
5.2 Marginal effects of health status
5.3 Estimated wages of people not currently working - Appendix A Specifying a wage model (PDF - 88 Kb)
- Appendix B Data and variables (PDF - 139 Kb)
- Appendix C Results (PDF - 54 Kb)
- References (PDF - 66 Kb)
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