We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are …

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …

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 …

This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …

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

in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and …

This paper estimates the impact of school quality on the transition to higher education examination (abbreviated as YGS … same cohort, we find that student quality explains the transition to higher education examination outcomes to a large … average YGS score of AHS. This can be explained by the relatively standardized school resources devoted to AHS. The results …