to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion … treatment is based on SES rather than ethnicity. Evaluating the effectiveness of programs targeting disadvantaged students in … and final year graduation rates, with the impact often stronger for higher ability students. We find similar patterns of …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

The paper examines the effects of school pupil-teacher ratios and type of school on educational attainment and wages … qualifications or on male wages. It has an impact on women's wages at the age of 33, particularly those of low ability. We also find … evidence that those who attend selective schools have better educational outcomes and, in the case of men, higher wages at the …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …

human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …

Green hydrogen has outgrown the testing stage: over the next few years, consortia across Europe will be investing large … sums to build the supply chains of tomorrow. However, Europe as a whole will only be successful if it aligns the …