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 …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …

considers education as a proxy for skill, results suggest that unskilled workers were affected most adversely when the crisis …

and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed description of the type of education reached by the … Danish population to calculate different measures of earnings risk by education. Our long panel data set also allows us to …