This paper analyses the influence of country-level education mismatch on the individual-level relationship between education and the probability of being unemployed or staying in alternative labour statuses, for young people aged 15-34 in 2006, 2008 and 2010, living in 21 EU countries. We assume...

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

In this paper, we examine the question of how trade drives educational attainment in a cross-country panel setting. If a country experience a positive demand shock for exports or a negative supply shock for imports that is intensive in educated labor, the demand for education is expected to...