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This thesis examines the role of public policies and institutions in fostering human capital formation and utilization. In the first chapter, I analyze the impact of college remedial courses on students' performance and college completion, using administrative data from the department of Economics of an Italian university. My results suggest that the complex design of the policy studied hinders its effectiveness, as it fails both to boost students' results and to reduce college drop-out. In the second chapter, a joint work with Clémentine Van Effenterre, we study mothers' labor supply response to a reorganization of children's school schedule, promoted in France since 2013. We show that mothers react to this intervention by restructuring their working time in accordance to children's new schedule. Finally, in the last chapter, I investigate whether loosening employment protection legislation decreases firms and workers' investments in training. Exploiting a reform introduced in the United Kingdom in 2012, I find that reducing job protection in a period of negative wage growth does not lead to an increase of dismissals or a decline in training investments. ; Esta tesis examina el papel que las políticas y las instituciones públicas pueden jugar para favorecer la formación y el uso del capital humano. En el primer capítulo, estudio el impacto de los cursos de recuperación ofrecidos en la universidad sobre los resultados de los alumnos y su probabilidad de acabar los estudios universitarios, utilizando datos administrativos de un departamento de Economía de una universidad italiana. Mis resultados sugieren que la complejidad de esta política estorba su eficacia, dado que no consigue mejorar ni el desempeño de los estudiantes ni disminuir su probabilidad de abandonar la universidad. En el segundo capítulo, un trabajo conjunto con Clémentine Van Effenterre, analizamos el impacto de una reorganización del horario escolar de los niños, introducida en Francia a partir de 2013, sobre las decisiones de trabajo de las ...

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Educational attainment and vocational training are important components of the human capital and they both show large cross-country variation. Large differences in vocational training between countries have two major interconnected explanations. The first one deals with structural differences in technological structure of labour demand, while the second one associates incidence of on-the-job training with institutional environment fertile for high tech developments.

This article features supplementary data related to the article "How are adult skills configured?" (R. Scandurra, J. Calero, How are adult skills configured? Int. J. Educ. Res., 99, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.06.004.) The tables show the descriptive statistics of the variables included in the model together with the measurement model and the measure of overall model fit. Moreover, the data article describes the procedures used and can be beneficial for the research community for further research on adult skills. For further information please consult linked data.

Asia has undergone rapid transformation over the past several decades as many countries have embraced new technologies and the processes of globalisation. Focusing on a number of developed and developing Asian economies, this book explores the dynamics of workforce development and skill formation, and considers questions of both skills shortages and skills gaps.

This paper attempts to provide basic information on skill formation in the "transition" from modest subsistence-supplementary industrial activities to more progressive industries. The approach is to analyse the process in particular industrial branches

"Asia has undergone rapid transformation over the past several decades as many countries have embraced new technologies and the processes of globalisation. Focusing on a number of developed and developing Asian economies, this book explores the dynamics of workforce development and skill formation, and considers questions of both skills shortages and skills gaps"--