at the individual level as workers re-build lost human capital through education. Employing administrative person … in service sector jobs varies greatly across workers depending on occupation, education and age. Less-educated, older and …

minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are …

educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

liberalization. Comparing trade and education policy, we find that targeted education subsidies are more effective than tariffs as a …

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …