Articles, books, book chapters

Ammermüller, A. (2004), PISA: What makes the difference? Explaining the gap in PISA test scores between Finland and Germany. Empirical Economics, September 2007, v. 33, iss. 2, pp. 263-87.

Ammermüller, A. (2007), Poor background or low returns? Why immigrant students in Germany perform so poorly in the Programme for International Student Assessment. Education Economics, Jun2007, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p215-230.

Ammermüller, A., H. Heijke and L. Wößmann (2005), Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition, Economics of Education Review, 24(2005), 579-99. [pdf]

Andini, C. (2007), Returns to Education and Wage Equations: a Dynamic Approach, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 8, 577-79. .

Asplund, R. (2004), The Provision and Effects of Company Training: A Brief Review of the Literature. ETLA Discussion papers No. 907 and The Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31(1), 47-73. [pdf]

Asplund, R. (2005), Employers and training: What do we know and what do we not know?, in Marx, I. & W. Salverda (eds), Low-wage Employment in Europe: Perspectives for Improvement. Acco, Leuven, 141-156.

Asplund, R. and E. Barth (eds) (2005), Education and Wage Inequality in Europe: A literature review. ETLA, Series B212, Helsinki. [content]

Barth, E. (2004), Why such large differences in the wage structure between countries? Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet 21(2), 285–288. (in Norwegian) [pdf]

Biagi, F. & C. Lucifora (2008), Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe, Labour Economics, October 2008, v. 15, iss. 5, pp. 1076-1101.

Budría, S. (2008), An exploration of asset returns in a production economy with relative habits, Atlantic Economic Journal, Sep2008, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p261-74.

Budría, S. and J. Díaz-Giménez (2007), Economic Inequality in Spain: The European Community Household Panel Dataset, Spanish Economic Review, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p1-38. [pdf (2006)]

Budría, S. and A. Moro-Egido (2008), Education, Educational Mismatch, and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Spain, Economics of Education Review, June 2008, v. 27, iss. 3, pp. 332-41. [pdf (2006)]

Budría, S. and P.T. Pereira (2007), The Wage Effects of Training in Portugal: Differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types, Applied Economics, Vol. 3 Issue 6, p787-807. [pdf (2006)]

Dolton, P. (2004), The economic assessment of training schemes, in Johnes, G. and J. Johnes (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Education. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Dolton, P., R. Asplund and E. Barth (eds) (2009), Education and Inequality Across Europe, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Dolton, P., G. Makepeace and O. Marcenaro (2005), Career Progression: Getting-On, Getting-By and Going Nowhere, Education Economics 13(2), 239-257. [pdf (2004)]

Galindo-Rueda, F. and A. Vignoles (2005), The Declining Relative Importance of Ability in Predicting Educational Attainment, Journal of Human Resources 40(2), pp. 335–353. (previously published as CEE Discussion Paper 0032 (2004) under the title Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain.) [pdf]

Lauer, C (2004), Education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. ZEW Discussion Paper 04-54 (2004) and Brussels Economic Review 47(3), 505-541. [pdf]

le Grand, C., R. Szulkin and M. Tåhlin (2004), Working life is slipping behind: the simple jobs are not disappearing, Sociological Research (Journal of the Swedish Sociological Association) 41(1), 27–33. (in Swedish)

le Grand, C., R. Szulkin and M. Tåhlin (2004), Overeducation or skill shortage? Matching in the Swedish labor market 1974-2000, in Bygren, M., M. Gähler and M. Nermo (eds), Family and Work. Everyday Life in Transition. SNS Forlag, Stockholm. (in Swedish)

Machin, S. and A. Vignoles (2004), Educational Inequality: The Widening Socio-Economic Gap, Fiscal Studies 25(2), 107–128. [pdf]

Working Papers

Brunello, G. and M. De Paola (2004), Market Failures and the Under-Provision of Training. CESifo Working Paper No. 1286. [pdf]

Brunello, G. and C. Lauer (2005), Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1299 and ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-45. [pdf]

Evälä, A. (2004), Educational inputs and outputs – Finland from an international perspective. ETLA, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Discussion Paper No. 922, Helsinki. (in Finnish) [pdf]

Work in Progress

Andini, C. (2005), A Dynamic Mincer Equation and an Application to Portuguese Data. Mimeo.

Brunello, G. (2005), On the Complementarity between Education and Training. Mimeo. [pdf]

Brunello, G. (2005), Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth. Mimeo. [pdf]

Budría, S. (2005), Can over-education account for the positive association between education and within-groups wage inequality? Mimeo. [pdf]

le Grand, C., R. Szulkin and M. Tåhlin (2004), Over-education or Lack of Skills? Job Matching on the Swedish Labour Market 1974–2000. Mimeo. [pdf]

Szulkin, R. and J.O. Jonsson, Ethnic segregation and educational outcomes in Swedish comprehensive schools: A multilevel analysis. Mimeo. [pdf]

Tsakloglou, P. and I. Cholezas (2005), Earnings inequality in Europe: Structure and patterns of inter-temporal changes. Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of International and European Economic Studies. Mimeo.