This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …

uses the Overeducation/Required education/Undereducation framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition developed by Chiswick … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …

/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …

/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … evidence on the moderating roles of age, gender and industry in the relationship between education, productivity and wage costs … costs is more compressed than the education-productivity profile. This effect, robust across industries, is found to …

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

for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are …