attainment and earnings by arguing that the signalling role of formal education – captured by attainment – matters more than …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that … education. Our main result is that books at home at age ten have had long-lasting beneficial effects on the individuals who were …

international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the marginal return to additional education. When the endogeneity of … same age with higher education experience faster earnings growth. Hence, there is evidence that wage differentials by … education widen as individuals grow older. …

education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience … profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labour … in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which …

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between individual educational attainment and … employment protection and a lower value of the Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and …