In almost all developed countries there has been substantial growth in university education over the last half-century. This growth has raised concerns that the benefits of university education are declining and that university education is not appropriate for students who, without the...

In almost all developed countries there has been substantial growth in university education over the last half-century. This growth has raised concerns that the benefits of university education are declining and that university education is not appropriate for students who, without the...

Educational expansion has often been discussed in terms of possiblydeclining returns to education. The theoretical debate provides arguments supportingboth expectations about declining and increasing returns. Declining returns wouldnot only menace individual investment strategies but also put...

In the post-WWII period, industrial relations in advanced economies have gone through three main stages of development. During the first stage, corresponding to the rise of the Keynesian welfare state, two distinct models of regulation of labour emerged. What has been called the...

The aim of this paper is to describe and compare activation policies in two European countries, Italy and Germany, which - though belonging to the same «welfare regime» - are however marked by different labour market characteristics. After a short discussion of the mainstream literature on the...

Early school leaving, despite being quite common in Italy, has not been studied much. There is a lack of data and quantitative research concerning its pattern over time, and its relation to social stratification and inequality. The paper contributes to this topic using the first two waves of the...