Les critiques adressées à la théorie du capital humain prennent principalement la spécificité du marché du travail en compte. Doeringer et Piore (1971) ou Cain (1976), mettent notamment en évidence l’influence de la situation sur le marché du travail dans la détermination des salaires...

The role of socio economic background in school attainment is a central issue. Most studies conclude that if socioeconomic background is still strongly associated with school attainment, this association has rather declined among cohorts, including for higher degrees. Opponents of the decline of...

The brain drain has long been viewed as a serious constraint on poor countries development. However, recent theoretical literature suggests that emigration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and foster investment in education at home. This paper takes advantage of a new...

In France, the number of years of schooling is high, and so is spending on education. Over the past thirty years, spending per student has increased, in particular because of the growing importance of the secondary and tertiary levels. What, more generally, is the impact of education on the...

Cet article défend l'idée selon laquelle une scolarisation minimale obligatoire peut constituer un complément efficace à une taxe qui financerait l'éducation en présence d'évasion fiscale. Nous construisons un modèle à générations d'agents dans lequel deux régimes d'éducation sont...