What Lies behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity
利用雇主-雇员关联数据，研究教育如何通过进入高薪企业和职业来提升工资，发现30%的教育回报来自企业渠道，12%来自职业渠道。
Abstract Do more educated workers earn higher wages partly because they have access to high-paying firms and occupations? We rely on linked employer-employee data to combine the estimation of AKM models with the decomposition of the returns to schooling. We exploit exogenous variation in education driven by changes in compulsory education. We show that education provides access to better-paying workplaces and occupations: 30 percent of the overall return to education operates through the workplace channel and 12 percent through the occupation channel. The remainder is associated exclusively with the individual. Match quality plays a modest role in the returns to education.