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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...

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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

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Are wages in Southern Europe more flexible? : The effects of cohort size on European earnings

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect...

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The optimal timing of school tracking

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …

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Training and the density of economic activity : evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); De Paola, Maria (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in opposite directions: on the one hand, the complementarity between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a...

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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : Evidence from the European community household panel

Bassanini, Andrea (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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Agglomeration effects on employer-provided training : evidence from the UK

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The Optimal Timing of School Tracking

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

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