, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …

independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility. -- Wage dynamics ; occupational …

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …

progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of uppersecondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …

top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose …