substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

investigated by estimating a multinomial probit model. We find that education, age and gender strongly affect the probability of … increasingly large category of non-workers are the losers. Rates of return to education have increased but income function analysis …

/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …