Quantile regression (QR) has received increasing attention in recent years and applied to
wide areas such as investment, finance, economics, medicine and engineering. Compared …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …