This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of … schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany … found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother …

education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the … participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying … population. The Swedish adult education program is unprecedented in its size, and enrollment is universally available at …

The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the …

In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the … experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map … Statistics data for each occupation and area. Finally, we develop a model capable of projecting the trajectory of wages across …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated …

of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing …

reveal that experience-variance profiles of persistent earnings are very similar across the two education groups and also …