Recently published results from PISA 2006 Report show the existence of significant divergences in test scores among students from different Spanish regions participating in this evaluation. The aim of this paper is to investigate the potential causes of those divergences. For this purpose, an...

El análisis de las políticas de formación de las empresas catalanas pone de manifiesto que existe un porcentaje sustancial de empresas que no asume el coste de la formación de sus empleados. En este trabajo, a través de un análisis de regresión logística, se identifican los factores que...

This paper intends to describe the diversity of paths followed by young people who either drop out or finish compulsory education in Spain. To that aim we deploy optimal matching analysis to analyse a sample of youngsters drawn from a longitudinal data-set (ETEFIL-2005). Their trajectories in...

The proliferation of private tutoring (PT) is a major issue in a growing number of countries, Korea being an extreme case. This article explores the causes and consequences of PT in Korea. PT is linked to the existence of a dual higher education system consequence of a dual labour market-...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the returns to education in Spain using the Survey on the Quality of Life in the Workplace. Five waves of the survey have been pooled to build a dataset for which Mincer-type earning functions are estimated. Unlike other analyses experience is computed...

En este artículo se analiza el grado de segregación socioeconómica existente en el sistema educativo español. Para ello se hace uso de los datos suministrados por la tercera evaluación del proyecto PISA llevado a cabo por la OCDE. Se estudia la segregación debida a diferencias entre las...

En este artículo se explora la convergencia entre la teoría de las capacidades y la educabilidad, en relación con la existencia de múltiple factores que determinan el rendimiento educativo. El objetivo del trabajo es comprobar la presencia de tales condicionantes para el caso de Brasil,...

This paper analyzes the level of “technical” quality public schools and determines whether or not there are discrepancies between this indicator and parents’ subjective perception of quality. A sample of public schools in Catalonia is surveyed. The results show that parents correctly...

This paper analyses in a novel way how educational investments can improve human capital formation in Europe, based on a model of age-dependent skill formation featuring dynamic complementarities. Counterfactual investment policies are evaluated with an Atkinson-Sen welfare function. Investments...

While education economists have paid considerable attention to the performance of the education sectors, they have placed little emphasis on the management of the pedagogical process. In the context of developing countries, there are clear signs of weak management and too many school personnel...