Wage Earnings: Does Experience outweigh Education? Evidence from Ernakulam district of Kerala

K M, SIBY (2021): Wage Earnings: Does Experience outweigh Education? Evidence from Ernakulam district of Kerala. Published in: Mukt Shabd Journal , Vol. X, No. Issue IV, APRIL/2021 (27 April 2021): pp. 668-677.

Abstract

The study empirically analyses the impacts of education, experience, days of work per month and gender on wage earnings. The study makes use of primary data and a cross sectional analysis is done via Karl Pearson’s correlation and log level regression. Non-parametric tests like Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test are made use to test different hypotheses. The results of the study point to the positive impacts of education and experience on wage earnings and conclude the outweighing nature of experience than education on wage earnings.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: wage earnings, education, experience
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I26 - Returns to Education; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J30 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J8 - Labor Standards: National and International > J88 - Public Policy

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