occupational levels for any given level of education in the two countries of interest: Austria and Germany. Migrant outcomes are … also being compared with home country outcomes, i.e. Serbia and Turkey. We find that education is imperfectly portable … occupational returns to education but migrants in Austria or Germany lag considerably behind. Middle and higher education in …

The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS … gender disparities in comparison to: EU-12 and EU-15, using data for the period 1985-2005. The study confirms the existence … of slightly different paths in which gender disparities have evolved over time. While in EU-15 women participation in …

terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT …This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

been a trend towards jobs distinguished as medium and low skilled. Moreover, a comparison between education level and …

The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor … university education. Chapter 5 analyzes data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills to compare employment probabilities over the … working-life cycle for individuals with vocational and general education. An initial employment advantage of vocational …

to the year 2009. The analysis focuses on their participation in various modes of adult education and their long …-term labour market outcomes. Employees in declining occupations are found to have participated only moderately in adult education …. The result is the same also when adult education is split into four main modes, and into shorter and longer time horizons …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

analysis of differences with respect to job quality and changes in job quality for a number of other dimensions, such as gender …