Christoph Weiss is an economist in the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank. Previously he was the Antonveneta Research Fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Padova. He received a PhD in economics from the European University Institute. His research interests include labour economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics.
The recent slowdown in productivity growth in the US, the EU, and in other developed economies has generated a sense of urgency among policymakers to identify impediments to productivity ...
At least since Mincer (1974), many economists have estimated the returns to education. The vast and ever growing literature in this area has been reviewed by Card (2001) and Heckman et al...
