We analyse binding constraints to productivity growth in the UK's regions outside London
and the greater South East. These analyses challenge a number of common arguments …

A growing literature examining labor market returns to college major is motivated by large
returns to skill. Prior research focuses on mean effects rather than earnings growth and …

There is widespread concern that students are increasingly becoming passive consumers of
education who primarily attend university to obtain the credentials they need for the labour …

This introductory overview sets out the scope and aims of the special issue, which is
concerned with establishing more meaningful understandings and discourses on the …

This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and
labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher …

This chapter reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in
general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher …

This study investigates the evolving demand for graduate skills in the British workforce,
leveraging a task-based approach with data from the Skills and Employment Survey Series …

More than one-third of Russia's labour force has a university diploma. With rapid
massification, higher education quality turns into one of the key determinants of graduates' …

Learning gain in higher education, specifically the development of subject-adjacent skills,
abilities and competencies, is of key scholarly and policy relevance. However, little research …

Более трети занятых в экономике России имеют диплом о высшем образовании. В
условиях массового выпуска из университетов качество обучения становится одной из …