The empirical literature using large international students’ assessments tends to neglect the role of school composition variables in order not to incur in a misidentification of peer effects. However, this could lead to an error of higher logical type since the learning environment...

According to mainstream scholars, European employement and productivity faltered because rigid labour markets hinder the adjustement to the new ICT technologies. Whereas this view matches the raise of unemplyement in low quality jobs, it is not able to explain the differential rates of job...