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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...

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On the complementarity between education and training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...

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Unemployment, education and earnings growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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Does mental productivity decline with age? : evidence from chess players

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2013

We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain … age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fixed effects estimators applied to raw data do not … guarantee consistent estimates of age-productivity profiles. In our data, this method strongly over-estimates the productivity …

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Books are forever : early life conditions, education and lifetime income

Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...

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Non cognitive skills and personality traits : labour market relevance and their development in education & training systems

Brunello, Giorgio; Schlotter, Martin - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...

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The costs of early school leaving in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...

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Laterborns don't give up : the effects of birth order on earnings in Europe

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - 2013

While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...

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Education as a tool for the economic integration of migrants

De Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2016

We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are – on average – slightly less educated than native individuals, there is a large heterogeneity across countries. We discuss evidence on student performance in international...

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