literature suggests that emigration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and foster investment in education … at home. This paper takes advantage of a new dataset on emigration rates by education level (Docquier and Marfouk, 2006 …

students performance. We estimate an education production function with country fixed-effect and school random-effect. We find …

-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a proof that education raises labour productivity. Some macroeconomists …, analysing cross-country time series, also support the idea that the continuous expansion of education has contributed positively … the education-productivity-wage nexus. And the few published works considering firm-level evidence are lacking a proper …

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …

growth OLG models. An endogenous growth model, with education as the engine of growth, dampens the negative impact of a … decline in fertility on growth when compared with an exogenous growth model. This result stems from the rise in education …

different angles. However, very few seem to have considered its gender dimension properly, despite evidence that lifting the … into a unique firm-level panel of Belgian data to produce robust evidence on the causal effect of age/gender on … productivity and labour costs. We take advantage of the panel structure to identify age/gender-related differences from within …

In this paper we explore a matched employer-employee data set to investigate the presence of gender wage discrimination … in the Belgian private economy labour market. Contrary to many existing papers, we analyse gender wage discrimination … using an independent productivity measure. Using firm-level data, we are able to compare direct estimates of a gender …

employment opportunities of individuals located in urban areas in which the level of education differs. Results show that … increase on the college share on the employment rate for different education groups. Spatial employment differences in Colombia …