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First, disregarding individual fixed effects is highly problematic, accounting for 48.5% of the OLS bias. Second, disregarding firm fixed effects is also problematic, accounting for 12.3% of the OLS bias.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>The implication for the studies in the labor-supply literature that estimate, by means of instrumental variables, the wage returns to in-school work or to on-the-job schooling is that an instrument dealing with employee\u2019s unobserved ability only may fail to meet the exclusion restriction.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Take the typical instrument based on a policy reform that changes the compulsory schooling level in the population. This instrument may well be argued to be correlated with the education of the employee and uncorrelated with the unobserved ability of the employee, but unfortunately it cannot be seen as orthogonal to the unobserved ability of the employer because of its correlation with the (unobserved) education of the manager. This is a simple corollary of the fact that the employee and the manager belong, in general, to the same population.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Social implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Individuals invest a considerable amount of resources in education, which is seen to have positive effects on several dimensions of individual life. Yet, the estimation of these effects is still surrounded by technical difficulties.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>To the best of the authors\u2019 knowledge, this is the first study that uses the Gelbach decomposition to investigate the determinants of the OLS bias of the wage return to graduate education for high-school workers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ijm-08-2022-0378","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,30]],"date-time":"2024-05-30T23:02:18Z","timestamp":1717110138000},"page":"1409-1425","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Beyond the Griliches biases"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"45","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4303-9402","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Corrado","family":"Andini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-4262-0510","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Monica","family":"Andini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"key2025011310154317800_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Abowd, J.M. and Kramarz, F. 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