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Diploma Effects by Gender in the Spanish Labour Market
Author(s) -
Pons Empar
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2006.00292.x
Subject(s) - earnings , human capital , productivity , economics , labour economics , contrast (vision) , human capital theory , demographic economics , macroeconomics , economic growth , accounting , artificial intelligence , computer science
. The aim of this paper is to contrast the nature of the schooling effect on earnings in the Spanish labour market in terms of gender. Hungerford and Solon's ( Review of Economics and Statistics 69: 175–177, 1987) methodology is used to distinguish between the returns to schooling arising from mere years of schooling as a reflection of their productivity‐enhancing contribution (human capital) and the returns to schooling arising from certificates (diploma effects) as signals of the individual's productivity (sheepskin effects) or as credentialism. The results show evidence only of diploma effects in Upper Secondary Studies for men.