Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider the enrolment at university and the subsequent possible dropout as a piece of the school-to-work transition and ask whether it improves or worsens the labour market outcomes a few years after graduation from the high school....

C<sc>roce</sc> G. and G<sc>hignoni</sc> E. Employer-provided training and knowledge spillovers: evidence from Italian local labour markets, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Following suggestions from the literature on agglomeration and on social returns to education, this paper aims to uncover the relationship between local...

This paper analyses the incidence of overeducation of university graduates. To this end, we estimate a random effects model for a panel of European countries. Our results do not confirm that the increase of the supply of qualified labour per se can be seen as a relevant factor fuelling...

According to recent literature, this paper highlights the relevance of spatial mobility as an explanatory factor of the individual risk of job-education mismatch. To investigate this causal link, we use individual information about daily home-to-work commuting time and choices to relocate in a...