The study was commissioned by DG Education and Culture of the European Commission to investigate: (i) the importance of education in influencing labour productivity, output growth and other key macroeconomic trends in Europe's increasingly knowledge-based economies, primarily through education's...

The main goal of the study is to demonstrate that sustained or widening differences between the performances of educational systems within the EU may contribute - via labour market outcomes and subsequently through a range wider economic impacts - to the emergence or deepening of macroeconomic...