This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … importance of relative education as an explanatory variable in a Mincerian- style wage equation. I find the conclusions of this … method to be dependent on the reference group used in defining relative education. Consequently also the second method yields …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …

stylized facts about the connection between the demographic transition and changes in education (the size and quality of the … labor force), with labor supply, inequality, and unemployment. The main conclusion is that demographics and education … about labor markets in Latin America. Although demographics and education move slowly through time and have a strong …

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …

, individual occupational choices and education decisions, we show that the distribution of incomes was being affected, on the one … hand, by a decline in average returns to both education and experience, a negative ?growth? effect and immiserizing changes …