Peter Dolton

TL;DR: This article found that 38% of graduates were overeducated for their first job and, even six years later (1986), 30% of the sample were still overedocated, indicating that the return on surplus education is less than the return of required education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the decision by teachers to leave the profession and affirm the importance of relative earnings in the tenure and turnover decisions of teachers, using an econometric modeling approach used yields important insights into the appropriateness of adopting a flexible, semiparametric specification of the duration dependence structure and of the unobserved heterogeneity distribution in duration models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the decision by teachers to leave the profession in a dependent competing risks framework, which allows for a flexible, semiparametric specification of the duration-dependence structure and of the unobserved heterogeneity distribution in each exit-specific hazard function.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the effect of the Restart programme in the United Kingdom and show that it has a significant effect on reducing the duration of unemployment duration and distinguishing between exits from unemployment to: a job, a training placement or to signing-off.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between the real and relative level of teacher remuneration and the (internationally) comparable measured performance of secondary school pupils and found that recruiting higher ability individuals into teaching and permitting scope for quicker salary advancement will have a positive effect on pupil outcomes.