Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic … indicate that the initial advantage associated to vocational education declines over time, without turning however into a …. Overall, our evidence suggests that vocational education is associated to lower expected long-term utility only for the …

Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic … indicate that the initial advantage associated to vocational education declines over time, without turning however into a …. Overall, our evidence suggests that vocational education is associated to lower expected long-term utility only for the …

endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple …

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

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 …