secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a …Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing …

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children … styles are strongly associated with household income, education and whether a child is an only child. The results suggest … associated with low household income and having more than one child are associated with lower skills of the child. Therefore, our …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

capital are associated with earnings mobility. The results indicate that, while individuals with higher cognitive skills … experience greater earnings stability and upward mobility in both countries, there is only an incremental effect of skills on … for earnings mobility; in both countries, advanced skills at work are associated with greater short-term mobility, even …

the graphical analysis show that education and skill mismatch may exhibit opposite relationships with earnings at the … country level. Specifically, over and under-education are found to be positively associated with median earnings, whereas over …This work aims to determine whether the difference between skill and education-based measures of labour mismatch …

The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult … its two predecessor international skills surveys. Second, it outlines the main themes which have been investigated to date …

educational attainment and earnings trajectories among Australian-born children of diverse parental migration backgrounds from mid … outcomes, primarily driven by children of parents from select Asian countries. These individuals are more likely to complete …, health, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. Children of NESB immigrant parents initially earn less than their …

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 …