Earnings of University Dropouts Across Europe

“Basic Skills and the Earnings of Dropouts”

This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates indicate that a standard deviation increase in the test score is associated with 6.5 percent higher average ...

The Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap across the Earnings Distribution

Relevance of mental health issues in university student dropouts.

BACKGROUND A significant proportion of university students drop out of their courses, representing a significant loss of resources in terms of funds invested in them, as well as loss of revenue to universities. AIMS To determine whether a history of recent or current mental health problems affected the likelihood of university students dropping out of their studies and, if so, whether additio...

Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution

Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end of the earnings distribution than at the upper end. The findings also indicate that mobility increases over t...

Innovation performance across Europe

The innovation performance of Þrms is primarily determined by their own innovative activities and the interaction with their innovationrelated environment. This environment typically differs among countries. We assess empirically these differences on Þrms’ innovation performance. To that end we Þrst estimate the relationship between an aggregate innovation input measure and an aggregate innovat...