This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training … Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and limited labor market experience enjoy higher …

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 … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …

, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in … education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …