Measuring educational heterogeneity and labor quality: A note

TY - JOUR

T1 - Measuring educational heterogeneity and labor quality

T2 - A note

AU - Fosgerau, Mogens

AU - Hougaard Jensen, Svend E.

AU - Sørensen, Anders

PY - 2002

Y1 - 2002

N2 - This paper investigates the magnitude of the mismeasurement that occurs when only a few education categories are used in the construction of a constant quality index for labor input. By employing a very comprehensive data set it is found that the error resulting from the omission of information on education is relatively small. The empirical results are thus supportive of the current state of practice of constructing indices of constant quality labor input.

AB - This paper investigates the magnitude of the mismeasurement that occurs when only a few education categories are used in the construction of a constant quality index for labor input. By employing a very comprehensive data set it is found that the error resulting from the omission of information on education is relatively small. The empirical results are thus supportive of the current state of practice of constructing indices of constant quality labor input.

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M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:0036054506

SN - 0034-6586

VL - 48

SP - 261

EP - 269

JO - Review of Income and Wealth

JF - Review of Income and Wealth

IS - 2

ER -