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These essays address the important topic of human capital creation from an economic point of view. Among the crucial human capital-related topics covered are the complex interactions between schooling, learning and worker productivity, and individual earnings effects of investment in human capital.

The relationship between education and income inequality is of fundamental importance. In this book, an international group of renowned contributors focus on patterns of inequality and their relationship to education using recent data from European countries. The fresh and unique research deals with important topics such as: wage and education inequality, differences in earnings related to gender, the role of labour market institutions, demographic and cohort effects on inequality, intergenerational education and income mobility, the extent of 'overeducation' and job and life satisfaction...

This study asks whether it is possible for low-paid workers to obtain higher paid jobs through mobility within the earnings distribution. Based on fresh empirical evidence from 13 European countries, the book focuses on earnings mobility, as an issue of increasing concern to policy-makers.