Selected References on Returns to Tertiary Education

Australia ׀ Canada ׀ Finland ׀ Japan ׀ New Zealand

The material below has been gathered in the context of the project on "The Policy Determinants of Investment in Tertiary Education".  It contains country-specific studies on the calculation of the returns to higher education, the impact of human capital on economic performance and institutional features of tertiary education systems.

Australia

New Estimates of the Private Rate of Return to University Education in Australia (2002)
Jeff Borland, Department of Economics and Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Canada

Which Fields Pay, Which Fields Don’t? An Examination of the Returns to University Education in Canada by Detailed Field of Study  (2007)
Alan Stark, Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division,Department of Finance, Canada

Finland

Macroeconomic perspective on education and inequality (2004)
Rita Asplund, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Private returns to education in Finland (2000)
Rita Asplund, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Human capital and wage formation - abstract (2001)
Hannu Piekkola, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Wage dispersion in Finland (2005)
Hannu Piekkola, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Essays in economics of education (1999)
Roope Uusitalo

Japan

Internal rates of return to higher education for non-quitters and the role of female higher education (2001)
Kazuhiro Arai, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

New Zealand

Education and Maori Relative Income Levels over Time: The Mediating Effect of Occupation, Industry, Hours of Work and Locality (2002)
Sholeh A. Maani, New Zealand Treasury Working Paper
Private and Public Returns to Investments in Secondary and Higher Education in New Zealand Over Time: 1981-1996 (1999)
Sholeh Maani, University of Auckland, Department of Economics Working Paper
Returns to post-school qualifications: New evidence based on the HLFS Income Supplement (1997-2002) (2004)
Sholeh A. Maani & Tim Maloney, Report to the Labour Market Policy Group, Department of Labour, New Zealand
Why Have Maori Relative Income Levels Deteriorated Over Time? (2004)
Sholeh Maani, Department of Economics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

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