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Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Comment

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  • Jordahl, Henrik
  • Poutvaara, Panu
  • Tuomala, Juha

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In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [García-Mainar, I. & Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2005). Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Portugal vs. Spain. Economics of Education Review, 24(2), 161-170] apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation of the instrumental variables, as well as the robustness of the results.

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  • Jordahl, Henrik & Poutvaara, Panu & Tuomala, Juha, 2009. "Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Comment," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 641-644, October.
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