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Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains from Self-Selection Models

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  • Björklund, Anders

    (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

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In this paper we consider the basic self-selection model for the effects of education, training, unions, and other activities on wages. We show that past models have ignored "heterogeneity of rewards" to the activity--i.e., differences across individuals in the rate of return to the activity--as a source of selection bias. We model such heterogeneity, show how its presence can be tested, and draw out its implications for the wage and welfare gains to the activity. An empirical application provides strong support for such heterogeneity.

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  • Björklund, Anders, 1983. "Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains from Self-Selection Models," Working Paper Series 105, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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    4. Silvia Moler‐Zapata & Richard Grieve & Anirban Basu & Stephen O’Neill, 2023. "How does a local instrumental variable method perform across settings with instruments of differing strengths? A simulation study and an evaluation of emergency surgery," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(9), pages 2113-2126, September.

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    Keywords

    Education; Unions; Wage;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General

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