education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience … profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labor … in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which …

economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …

on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to … education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition countries in Europe and Central Asia are analyzed using panel data analysis and …

rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca … tertiary education graduates, whereas job characteristics and low skill content of jobs explain most of the wage gap for medium …

This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the … quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different … points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to tertiary education are highly increasing when moving from the lower …

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii … construct a novel data base that includes information on education reforms for thirty-one countries spanning four decades … education reduces the number of emigrants by almost 10%. Increasing the length of compulsory education shifts educational …

leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school … distribution of ability. Contrary to previous findings in the relevant literature, we find that additional education reduces wage … inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …