It is well established in the literature that students from immigrant backgrounds tend to perform worse in terms of several educational outcomes than their native counterparts, even after controlling for socio-economic factors. Digital technologies may help reduce these gaps by, for instance,...

This report reviews evidence about the impact of labour market policies of the type funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). Two sources were considered: academic papers over the 2000-2013 publication period and reports produced within the ESF Expert Evaluation Network (ESF-EEN) in the...

It has widely been acknowledged that education is a major source of economic prosperity and social well-being. Education is not only an important factor in the productivity and innovative capacity of an economy, but is also a prerequisite for social and cultural changes in patterns of...

This technical report presents EU-17 evidence on the extent of different measures of overeducation and overskilling among working age population in an attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between education and skill mismatch within the broader definition of...

We use data from 16 European countries to study the effects of student mobility during higher education on future mobility, on the transition from education to employment and on hourly earnings five years after graduation. We control for several important pre-determined individual...

The Education Council has adopted in May 2012 a new benchmark on the employability of graduates from education and training that aims at measuring the contribution of education and training to the transition from education to employment. This new benchmark is defined as the share of young people...

This report describes the policy evaluation framework and the different counterfactual analysis evaluation strategies: propensity score matching, regression discontinuity design, differences-in-differences and instrumental variables. For each method we present the main assumptions it relies on...

This report attempts to summarise findings and conclusions of over 30 studies published within the EURIPIDIS project (European Innovation Policies for the Digital Shift). The objective of EURIPIDIS was to better understand how digital innovation and entrepreneurship work; to assess the EU's...

This paper analyses key challenges for improving the European innovation ecosystem, notably the need to improve: (i) innovation performance to boost productivity growth, (ii) knowledge-intensive industrial activities, (iii) financing of highly innovative activities, (iv) the role of universities...

This paper analyses key challenges for improving the European innovation ecosystem, notably the need to improve: (i) innovation performance to boost productivity growth, (ii) knowledge-intensive industrial activities, (iii) financing of highly innovative activities, (iv) the role of universities...