Returns to Schooling in Self-Employment

Jens Iversen; Nikolaj Malchow-Møller; Anders Sørensen

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2010.05.014

Returns to Schooling in Self-Employment

Jens Iversen, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Anders Sørensen

Department of Economics

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Abstract

This paper challenges the idea that returns to schooling in self-employment are similar to those in wage work by establishing a non-linear relationship with very low returns for most educational levels in self-employment. We conclude that previous log-linear specifications in the self-employment literature have missed significant variation in the true relationship between education and earnings.

Original language	English
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	109
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	179-182
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.05.014
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010

Keywords

Returns to education
Self-employment
Wage work

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