, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …

human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …

redundancies. This results in superior predictions of individual wages and occupational switches. It also allows identifying career …

structure of new admissions to schools is related to the level of wages, profits, unemployment rates and R&D expenditures in …

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market …'s education relative to his reference group. The overall impression from the empirical section suggests that the signalling effect … of education on wages is minor compared to the human capital effect. I conclude that even though the comprehensive school …

have been acquired through formal education, East Germany has a high level of human capital in comparison to West Germany …

This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm …