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CVER Research Paper
The long-term impact of improving non-cognitive skills of adolescents: Evidence from an English remediation programme

In this paper, we estimate the long-term labour market effects of Entry to Employment (E2E), an intervention designed to improve the non-cognitive skills of low-achieving adolescents in England. Using an instrumental var...Read more...

Vahe Nafilyan, Stefan Speckesser and Augustin de Coulon

13 March 2020

CVER Research Paper
Young people in low level vocational education: characteristics, trajectories and labour market outcomes

Although 10% of school leavers in England start low level vocational education (normally below Level 2, `BL2?), very little is known about the characteristics of learners, their participation in vocational education and ...Read more...

Sophie Hedges, Vahe Nafilyan, Stefan Speckesser and Augustin de Coulon

24 March 2017

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Parents' Basic Skills and Childrens' Cognitive Outcomes

The main aim of this paper is to assess how parents? literacy and numeracy affect the cognitive skill of their children. The data used are from the British Cohort Survey (BCS) which provides in 2004 basic skill assessmen...Read more...

Elena Meschi, Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon

December 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
An Analysis of the Benefit of NVQ2 Qualifications Acquired at Age 26-34

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Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon

October 2008

CEP discussion paper
On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual?s ranking in the wage ...Read more...

Jonathan Wadsworth and Augustin de Coulon

February 2008

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
The Value of Basic Skills in the British Labour Market

In this paper we evaluate the labour market value of basic skills in the UK, focusing on the wage and employment returns to having better literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on literacy and numeracy assessments underta...Read more...

Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez, Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon

May 2007

CentrePiece article
'Va-et-vient'?

Nearly a third of immigrants in Western Europe intend to spend part of the year in their host country and the rest back home when they retire. That at least is the implication of analysis of a representative sample of mo...Read more...

Francois-Charles Wolff and Augustin de Coulon

December 2005

CEP discussion paper
Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or 'Va-et-Vient'

where labour considerations no longer matter, the location decisions are expected to depend not only on a comparison of standard-of-living between the origin and host countries, but should also be affected by the strengt...Read more...

Francois-Charles Wolff and Augustin de Coulon

May 2005

CEP discussion paper
Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective.

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of ret...Read more...

Matloob Piracha and Augustin de Coulon

July 2003