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The Over-Education Wage Penalty among PhD Holders: A European Perspective
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Loredana Cultrera; François Rycx; Giulia Santosuosso; Guillaume Vermeylen – Education Economics, 2025
Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two alternative measures of over-education and control stepwise for four groups of covariates in order to interpret the over-education wage penalty in light of theoretical models. Firstly, it appears that a significant fraction (i.e. between 1/5 and 1/3) of PhD holders in Europe are genuinely…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, College Graduates, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Education, Training, Innovation: Evidence from Transition Economies
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Akhmedjonov, Alisher R. – RAND Corporation, 2010
Innovation is the key to productivity growth and prosperity. Most empirical cross-country analysis of the determinants of innovation focus mainly on developed countries. The objective of this study is to fill this gap in the research and analyze the determinants of innovation in transition countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Education, Training, Innovation--Evidence from Transition Economies
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Akhmedjonov, Alisher – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Innovation is the key to productivity growth and prosperity. Most empirical cross-country analysis of the determinants of innovation focus mainly on developed countries. The objective of this study is to fill this gap in the research and analyze the determinants of innovation in transition countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational Development, Models