Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper …, we study such externalities and their drivers by conducting the first meta-analysis of the social returns to education …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …