We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most … important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand the link between education and training on the one hand and economic … and social inequality on the other. The authors focus the analysis on three main aspects of the links between education …

Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …

Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …