We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of … individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …

policies on gender can generate additional effects on an alternative dimension of representation, namely, the age of … municipalities and use a Difference in differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the age of elected …There is evidence that age matters in politics. In this paper we study whether implementation of affirmative action …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …

population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working-age …This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability … of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the working-age …