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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...

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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 … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …

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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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The optimal timing of school tracking

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

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Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

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An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment from the market and training. Compared to Germany and Japan, the US … has both a higher inflow rate into unemployment and a higher efficiency of the matching process. While the combined effort …

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Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression Is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2003

When labor markets are imperfectly competitive, firms may be willing to finance general training if the wage structure is compressed, that is, if the increase of productivity after training is greater than the increase in pay. We propose a novel way of testing this proposition, which exploits...

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Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training : Evidence from the UK

Brunello, Giorgio; Gambarotto, Francesca - 2004

Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local...

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Diploma No Problem : Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2004

Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private school, we show that, depending on the underlying...

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