Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20980 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 140
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labor market advantage but also a permanent advantage that increases with time in the labor market. We also find that differences in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which have experienced both relatively fast labor productivity growth and a relatively low educational attainment. The educational system also seems to matter, because countries with a more stratified system of secondary education have smaller differences in earnings growth by education
Subjects: 
Education
earnings growth
Europe
JEL: 
J30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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