This paper presents new evidence on the social returns to education within a macroeconomic growth regression framework. I use improved schooling data and a macro version of the Mincer relationship between education and wages for individual workers. The results suggest that an increase by one...

Does schooling generate social returns in excess of the private returns captured by the individual who makes the human capital investment? As a strategy to detect human capital externalities I use Dutch survey data to estimate the impact of the average human capital stock in a region on...

"In the EU‟s budget for 2010, the European Parliament proposed a preparatory action and allocated a budget for it with the aim of preparing a preparatory action provisionally called “ERASMUS for journalists” to “give journalists the possibility of exchange with journalists and media from...

Measuring public sector efficiency is not generally straightforward and presents a difficult empirical issue, specifically in terms of adequate measurement of costs and outcomes. This Country Focus attempts to measure the efficiency of public spending in Malta by applying two alternative...

Ziele dieser Studie sind zum einen die Bereitstellung eines vergleichenden Überblicks über Entwicklung, Zielsetzungen und Organisationnationaler Lernstandserhebungen in den Ländern des Eurydice-Netzes und zum anderen das Verständnis der Verwendung der Ergebnisse nationaler...

This background paper has been drafted in response to a request in June 2008 from the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) for a summary of Eurofound research and data on the incidence of workplace violence in the education sector in the EU. Eurofound has a track record of...