that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …

children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income …

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using … skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language, field-specific, and non-cognitive skills. Graduates of longer programs, of … private institutions, and of schools with higher reputation earn higher wages. Even after controlling for all the …

, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major … euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat …

substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling … have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper hypothesizes that …, earnings differentials across schooling levels would increase, as would the returns to education. In parallel, earnings …

children of high income parents early in their lives, which encourages greater cognitive development and lifetime earnings. … earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school … effects working through the other channels, thus providing an in-depth understanding of the link between parents’ and children …

How do education, skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during childhood … income parents early in their lives, and the resulting cognitive development. … contribute to the persistence of earnings across generations? Building on a classic literature in sociology and a more recent …

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability … with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team …-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in … social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage progression with tenure and also accrue higher returns in firms with a higher …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …