• Medientyp: Bericht; E-Book
  • Titel: Demand and supply effects and returns to college education: Evidence from a natural experiment with engineers in Denmark
  • Beteiligte: Qvist, Hans-Peter Y. [VerfasserIn]; Holm, Anders [VerfasserIn]; Munk, Martin D. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: London (Ontario): The University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP), 2016
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Beschreibung: The demand and supply model predicts that a larger relative net supply of a particular skill group will negatively affect its relative wage. To test this, we use the opening of a new university in Denmark as a natural experiment. We show that the opening of Aalborg University created a shock to the supply of structural engineers in the mid-1980s. Because Aalborg University did not have a chemical engineering program, we use chemical engineers as a control group and find that the wages of structural engineers dropped in and around 1984, when the supply of structural engineers peaked.
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