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 …

countries balance employment and equality concerns in core private services sectors and inquires the policy strategy that … analysis encompasses multiple policy tools - skill upgrading, social benefits, incentives to reduce barriers to employment and …

months both in paid employment, and in employment, education and training (EET) between age 17 and 42 than comparable … on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with conduct problems went on to spend fewer … teenagers who did not experience conduct problems. Employment and EET disadvantages were greatest among those with severe …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … education. We decompose contributions of private and public job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …

In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students … mobility. The results on employment outcomes are more consistent, with BA graduates having lower labour market returns than …

evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …

successfully compete for formal jobs. Specifically, we calculate the returns to education on formal employment for a discriminated … pensions scarce. In this paper, we explore whether education offsets discrimination by empowering discriminated groups to … group (indigenous Peruvians). We find that certain education levels -primary and tertiary-allow indigenous workers equal …