We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

education and more work experience, while cognitive ability and conscientiousness lead to higher education and high-paying jobs. …

been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … commonly used - while results for parental education are rather mixed. …

earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and … (the oldest). The analysis of educational attainment suggests that significant differences in the type of education exist …. Younger students are more likely to pursue an apprenticeship and less likely to have higher education. After five years of …

earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and … (the oldest). The analysis of educational attainment suggests that significant differences in the type of education exist …. Younger students are more likely to pursue an apprenticeship and less likely to have higher education. After five years of …

This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more … clear finding is that mobility is associated with superior earnings outcomes, but principally through mobility as it relates …

This paper describes two stylized facts about the earnings dynamics throughout a worker's career. First, this paper … shows that more educated workers have higher earnings growth with work experience than less educated workers. Second, it … demonstrates that more educated workers suffer greater earnings losses following job displacement. I propose a model that …

subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …