Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait … education has not changed across the birth cohorts of the post-war period. …

Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …

explores the intergenerational education mobility froma regional perspective. The key question is in which cities and regions … is there more independence between the education of parents and offsprings? Differences between migrants and non …,there was higher mobility where average education levels improved the most. …

. Historically, education has not been emphasized in Southeast Asia but there are indications that this is about to change. This …

. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …

For 106 countries over 1969-2004, this paper revisits the relationship between openness, education and economic growth … estimate of the impact of education on growth relative to the models which focus on within-country changes in education, adding … information on cross-country variation in education levels. …

This paper analyses pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects of education on poverty. Two are the main contributions: first … our purpose to highlight the non-pecuniary returns to education: resources invested in education bring future returns to …