Using micro-data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this paper seeks to answer how age, gender and … determined by these demographic profiles rather than education, skills and experience. It finds that literacy skills and tertiary … education, objective measures of skills, which are highly correlated with employment and productivity in most OECD countries, do …

-national spending on primary and lower-secondary education. Using state- and municipality-level data during 1991-2002, this paper shows … importance of FUNDEF in eliminating supply constraints to the improvement of education attainment. Enrolment rates are now nearly … universal for primary and lower-secondary education. Emphasis should therefore be placed on policies to improve the quality of …

habits with the hunt for talent regardless of gender. Finally, a corporate governance code in favour of a more equal …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …