The aim of this work is to estimate, for a sample of Italian graduates surveyed in 2004, a wage equation in which the effects of individual ability and education can be estimated separately. The differential in individual wage of, respectively, a graduate and a holder of a high school diploma is estimated through a Propensity Score Matching procedure, where a selected sample of high school certificate holders drawn from the Bank of Italy SHIW Survey serves as a control group. Estimation results show that the average effect of college attendance on labour income three years after the degree is positive by about 16% (+24% for men and +8% for women). The gap between man and women seems larger in the South of Italy and in the Islands.
Estimation of the University Education Effects on Italian Graduates' Labour Income
DI PINO INCOGNITO, Antonino;PULEJO, PATRIZIA
2009-01-01
Abstract
The aim of this work is to estimate, for a sample of Italian graduates surveyed in 2004, a wage equation in which the effects of individual ability and education can be estimated separately. The differential in individual wage of, respectively, a graduate and a holder of a high school diploma is estimated through a Propensity Score Matching procedure, where a selected sample of high school certificate holders drawn from the Bank of Italy SHIW Survey serves as a control group. Estimation results show that the average effect of college attendance on labour income three years after the degree is positive by about 16% (+24% for men and +8% for women). The gap between man and women seems larger in the South of Italy and in the Islands.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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