parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian …

Do wage differences between workers with high and low levels of education, between males and females and between … Norway for the period 1986-93. The results suggest that workers with higher education tend to be more productive, roughly in …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …