The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students differ not only in terms of their families' ability to pay...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird anhand von drei Biographien über J. A. Comenius dessen Leben skizziert und das Denken dieses vielseitig begabten Mannes beschrieben. Hierbei soll deutlich werden, dass Leben und Werk des Comenius stark miteinander verflochten sind. Die Zugänge der Autoren...