migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …

2006 National Education Law that made uppersecondary education compulsory. In this paper, instead, we claim that the …

To our knowledge, this paper provides the first study evaluating the effects of higher education for adults on the … education in 1992–1993. Our sample is aged 42–55 at the time of enrollment and thus aged 60–73 in 2010. We find that higher … education increases labor market survival rates when aged 61–66 by about 5 percentage points. The estimates represent relatively …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …. -- voting ; higher education ; financing scheme …

This paper asks: What is the effect of government policy on output and inequality in an environment with education and … wage inequality and labor supply in the U.S. In the model, education and labor-supply decisions depend on progressive … income taxation, the education system, the social security system, and technology-driven wage differentials. Government …

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility …. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas … welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We show that when private education is available, the degree of …