Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155083 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 29. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labour market advantage but also a permanent advantage that increases with time in the labour market. We also find that differences in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which have experienced both relatively fast labour productivity growth and a relatively low educational attainment. The educational system also seems to matter, because countries with a more stratified system o
Subjects: 
Education
earnings growth
Europe
JEL: 
J30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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