Social Returns to Education : Evidence From Italian Local Labor Market Areas /

The paper provides a quantitative assessment of social returns to education in Italy. It shows that, after controlling for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated social returns between 2 and 3 percent. This result is rob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalmazzo, A.
Other Authors: De Blasio, Guido
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/165
Online Access:Full text available on IMF