Measuring Educational Heterogeneity and Labour Quality: A Note

Mogens Fosgerau; Svend E. Hougaard Jensen; Anders Sørensen

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Measuring Educational Heterogeneity and Labour Quality: A Note

Mogens Fosgerau, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Anders Sørensen

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Abstract

This paper investigates the magnitude of the mismeasurement that occurs when only a few education categories are used in the construction of a constant quality index for labor input. By employing a very comprehensive data set it is found that the error resulting from the omission of information on education is relatively small. The empirical results are thus supportive of the current state of practice of constructing indices of constant quality labor input.

Original language	English
Journal	Review of Income and Wealth
Volume	48
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	261-269
ISSN	0034-6586
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4991.00052
Publication status	Published - Jun 2002

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