Ensuring a good match between skills acquired in education and on the job and those required in the labour market is essential to make the most of investments in human capital …
From the Ballot to the Blackboard provides the first comprehensive account of the political economy of education spending across the developed and developing world. The book …
Quantile regression estimates of returns to education are used to address the relation between schooling and wage inequality. Empirical evidence for male workers from 16 …
SM Billger, RK Goel - Journal of Development Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
We examine the determinants of corruption using recent cross-sectional data for nearly one hundred countries. While the causes of corruption have drawn economists' interest in recent …
PJ Sloane - Overeducation in Europe, 2003 - elgaronline.com
There is now a substantial literature both in North America and Europe covering various aspects of imperfect job matching in relation to the educational attainments of workers and …
Skills are frequently in the news and in the public eye in every country. Stories highlight concerns about education and literacy standards, grades, learning by rote, and university …
F Peracchi - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2006 - Elsevier
This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is …
The report by Professors Ángel de la Fuente and Antonio Ciccone looks into the economic return on investment in human resources as compared with other investments. It links this …
S McGuinness, J Bennett - Economics of Education Review, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper exploits the homogeneity of data from a cohort of Northern Ireland graduates to explore the extent to which both the incidence and impacts of overeducation are specific to …