holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …

Australian labour market and to determine the extent to which it is due merely to the recruitment of better students. We find …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …