Does temporary interruption in postsecondary education induce a wage penalty?: evidence from Canada
Almost 40 per cent of Canadian youth who left postsecondary education in 1999 had returned two years later. This paper investigates the extent to which schooling discontinuities affect post-graduation starting wages and whether the latter are influenced by the reasons behind these discontinuities. [The authors] use data from the 2007 National Graduate Survey. [They] apply Lewbel's (2012) generated instruments approach. The source of identification is a heteroscedastic covariance restriction of the error terms that is a feature of many models of endogeneity. [The authors] also perform two-stage... Show more
Authors: Fortin, Bernard; Ragued, Safa
Published: Oxford, England, Elsevier, 2017
Resource type: Article
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