Education and Earnings in Europe

A Cross Country Analysis of the Returns to Education

编辑Colm哈蒙Ia的爱丁堡大学n Walker, Lancaster University, UK and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Education and Earnings in Europe is based on a two year pan-European research programme and presents an in-depth analysis of the returns to education in Europe.

‘I enjoyed reading the individual chapters, and think their inclusion in a single volume will be a helpful asset to those concerned about specification and estimation issues in the literature. An introductory chapter by the editors usefully lays out the issues in the schooling returns literature.’
– M.L. Blackburn, Economics of Education Review

‘. . . the authors present country-specific trends and, perhaps more importantly, describe these trends in terms of underlying changes in various supply-side and demand-side factors. Since each one of the countries has it’s own chapter, the presentation allows readers to develop an in-depth understanding of the structure and evolution of each one of the national systems of education. Taken together, this book is a methodological tour de force and is highly recommended for graduate students, faculty, and researchers.’
– F. Galloway, Choice

‘This excellent volume provides a valuable insight into the returns to education from a cross European perspective. It contains high quality analyses by some of Europe’s leading labour market economists. Whilst of a quantitative nature, the results and respective interpretations of the volume will also be of value to practitioners and policy makers. I strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the analysis of economic and social returns to education.’
– Thomas Lange, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK