This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

the firm component is responsible for 22% of the overall IGE. We then explore potential mechanisms and find that education …

ability are higher in higher control environments. This provides a theoretical underpinning for the control-based explanation …

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high … higher Gini index. This paper shows that the Nordic countries display lower elitism in higher education as well as lower …

duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous ability of individuals can explain the differences in labor productivity … between tradable and non-tradable industries. The duality in the higher-education sector enables a separation of individuals … by their ability, and in consequence, human capital in both industries is different. The heterogeneity in human capital …

estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters. The paper finds one's ability to learn and one's ability to retain … two types of ability. However, schools may also implement ability enhancing interventions which can play a role in …