bracket has not dropped below 16% for nearly 30 years. French youth are highly pessimistic about the future and express great … situations. Positive discrimination in education policies should be given a real priority and education spending rationalised to … and youth employment services enhanced. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Review of France (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/France). …

differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and took similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …

find substantial cross-country variation for job preferences, with larger effects in countries with larger gender gaps …. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career …. However, in countries with negligible gender gaps, role models do not seem to have this equalizing function. …

Participation in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs has been proposed as a valuable strategy for supporting …

decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …

pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion reflecting a large education premium for those with higher education …

Education is a main determinant of employment, but not in isolation. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT … use is closing the gender divide and favouring female employment. We present evidence on this for the Spanish labour … for total population and distinguishing men and women using a Heckman model. …

lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …