The lack of formal education and competences of the Portuguese workers is one of the biggest problems of the country. This lack is not shrinking at the wanted speed and the young generations still lag far behind the ones in other OCDE countries. This paper studies the intergenerational...

The purpose of this work is to assess the effects of the extraordinary expansion of higher education supply in Colombia during the 1990s on the equality of tertiary education opportunity. In this work, the notion of increasing equality of opportunity is associated with a reduction in the...

El desarrollo y consolidación de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) ha dado paso a la denominada sociedad del conocimiento. La vieja discusión sobre el acceso al desarrollo de las regiones menos favorecidas por la Revolución Industrial ha quedado obsoleta por...

Like active labour market programmes (ALPMs), grade repetition could generate two types of effects. Better/worse outcomes due to programme participation (i.e. the fact that pupils repeat a particular grade). This is what the existing literature on grade repetition has focused on. Another...

Although not exclusive to the Republic of Korea´s educational system, the pervasiveness of private tutoring, and its consequences, serve to distinguish it from systems operated in other countries. However, the identification of inefficiencies linked to this phenomenon have seen the educational...

Los indicadores habitualmente utilizados para medir el fracaso escolar ponen en evidencia la clara necesidad de España por mejorar su alta tasa de abandono escolar prematuro, el nivel educativo de la población de 20 a 24 años y las dificultades de comprensión lectora de los alumnos. A pesar...

In this paper we use unique retrospective family background data from wave 13th of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyze the relevance of family background, in particular parental education - separated for fathers and mothers -, and gender on differential educational achievement....

Mientras las políticas educativas deben ser designadas con una perspectiva de largo plazo, considerando el desafío que el futuro puede acarrear, es la experiencia pasada la relevante para designar programas de capacitación que remedien la situación de los trabajadores golpeados. De acuerdo a...

The ratio of skill to unskilled labour stocks in the economy is widely acknowledged to have an important role for development. Can education policy do anything to affect the evolution of this ratio? This paper shows that it can, and it also shows that the actual effect of education policy...

En la última década del siglo XX se ha desarrollado una nueva tendencia sobre la misión de la universidad incorporando, a sus funciones tradicionales de enseñanza y de investigación, una tercera que se basa en el desarrollo de la llamada "tercera misión" en el ámbito de los tres ejes...