In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular
(and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and …

This article demonstrates how class origin shapes earnings in higher professional and
managerial employment. Taking advantage of newly released data in Britain's Labour Force …

The theory of market signaling and screening is a cornerstone of the new economics of
information. The last two and a half decades have not only witnessed a series of remarkable …

This paper advances some bases for a workplace curriculum. These are premised on
conceptions of curriculum as intents directed to individuals' progression towards full and …

We explore the effect of schooling on health, wealth and happiness for a cohort of Dutch
individuals born around 1940. We also use observations on childhood IQ and family …

This title was first published in 2003. The book covers the areas of: entrepreneurship and
economic development; entrepreneurship theories (traditional and alternative); …

This paper uses a survey of graduates from two cohort years (1985 and 1990) to examine
the determinants of overeducation in the UK. We determine whether or not graduates are …

Increasing awareness of the productive potential of soft skills has sparked a discussion of
their systematic and purposeful development. However, education systems pay only limited …

Education has an important effect on wages but it not clear whether this is because
education raises productivity or because education is simply a signal of ability. We …

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm
productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer–employee panel data for …