three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …

This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …

The recent work on misallocation argues that aggregate productivity in poor countries is low because various market …

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

-linear relationship between these two measures of inequality, actual data indicate that average years of education have a stronger … capita income and positively related to capital/output ratio and government expenditure in education. …