We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects … of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent decades: the "baby bust" and the "education boom". We find that …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of the boom in education on the wage structure in Europe. We use detailed … boom in education closely matched the shifts in demand due to (skill biased) technological change, which in turn explains … why the wage premia for education only rose moderately. We use the conditional wage spread within tertiary education …

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …