We study labor market competition with heterogeneous firms and consumers. Worker types are continuously distributed within the population and a finite number of firms have specific skill requirements. Specific human capital investment is the cost of training a worker to be able to work for a...

Children of educated parents systematically perform better at school than children of uneducated parents. It is then natural, if the location of families in the city follows a socially stratified pattern, to observe differences in public school's performances even when they are identically financed.

We investigate the balanced growth effects of pension plans on the rate of growth and on equalityin a closed economy where individual decisions about education are the engine of growth. We distinguish between pay-as-you-go and fully-funded pension systems and differentiate between three...

Children of educated parents systematically perform better at school than children of uneducated parents. It is then natural, if the location of families in the city follows a socially stratified pattern, to observe differences in public school's performances even when they are identically...

We investigate the balanced growth effects of pension pland on the rate of growth and on equality in a closed economy where individual decisions about education are the engine of growth. We distinguish between three different benefit rules: a Beveridgean one, a Bismarckian one depending on one's...

La publication tous les trois ans des enquêtes PISA1 offre un cadre d’analyse plus qu’intéressant en matière de politiques éducatives. Alors que les résultats de l’enquête PISA 2012 sont disponibles depuis décembre 2013, il convient de revenir sur les principaux enseignements que...

This paper shows the value of school autonomy for educational performance. To fully capture the informational advantage of local actors, we define school autonomy as the operational empowerment of the principals and teachers. The Flemish secondary school system in Belgium is analyzed as it is...

Educational tracking is a very controversial issue in education. The tracking debate is about the virtues of uniformity and vertical differentiation in the curriculum and teaching. The pro-tracking group claims that curriculum and teaching better aimed at children's varied interest and skills...

This paper shows the effect of school staff autonomy on educational performance. The distinctive feature with existing literature is that we employ variation in autonomy within the same country and within the same school type to reduce the omitted variables problems. To fully capture the...

This paper analyzes the role of the structure of skills in economic development through investment in human capital. With a lack of credit market for education and the presence of indivisibilities in investment in human capital as well as of congestion in the educational system, the initial...