An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of
educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The …

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …

Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher
education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world …

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the
role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely …

This article empirically explores how the often reported relationship between educational
mismatches and wages can best be understood. Exploiting the newly published Programme …

This article investigates to what extent education is rewarded on the labour market because
of the cognitive skills it indicates, using IALS data for the US, the UK, Germany and the …

Most research on reading acquisition is conducted in high-income countries, and the
majority of the limited research from middle-and low-income countries focuses exclusively …

An important issue in the design of secondary-level education is the balance between
conveying general and occupation-specific (vocational) skills. On the one hand, vocationally …

We evaluate the labour market value of literacy and numeracy in the UK, focusing on the
impact of basic skills on wages. We draw on literacy and numeracy tests undertaken by all …

A magyar felsõoktatásnak a kilencvenes években végbement hirtelen bõvülése so kakban
keltett aggodalmat: vajon az expanzió nem vezet-e tömeges „túlképzéshez”, azaz növekvõ …