A CEPR workshop on `Human Capital and Post-war European Economic Growth', took place in Dublin on 12/13 March. The workshop was organized by Peter Howlett (LSE), Paul A Johnson (LSE and CEPR) and Cormac Gráda (University College Dublin and CEPR). The following papers were presented:

`Human Capital and Economic Growth: Problems of Definition and Measurement', Peter Howlett (LSE)

`Problems in Estimating an Index of Human Capital for 19th and Early 20th Century Spain', Clara-Eugenia Núñez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) and Gabriel Tortella (Universidad de Alcalà de Henares, Madrid)

`Human Capital and Belgian Post-war Growth: What Do We Know?', Peter Solar (Vesalius College, Brussels)

`The Contribution of Human Capital Formation to Post-war Economic Growth in Ireland', Brendan Walsh (University College Dublin)

`Whatever Happened to Apprenticeship Training and What Has Replaced it? A British, American, Australian Comparison', Howard Gospel (University of Kent at Canterbury)

`Investment in Vocational Education and Training of Adult Workers', Christine Greenhalgh (St Peter's College, Oxford, and CEPR)

`Age Structure Human Capital and Post-war Economic Performance', Dudley Baines and Peter Howlett (LSE) and Paul Johnson (LSE and CEPR)

`Immigration and Growth in the Host Country: Evidence From Pooled Country Data', Juan Dolado (Banco de España and CEPR), Alessandra Goria (Fondazione Enrico Mattei, Milan) and Andrea Ichino (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research, Milan, and Fondazione Enrico Mattei)

`Pay Structures Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training in Post-war British and German Metalworking Industry', Paul Ryan (King's College, Cambridge)

`Why is the Return On On-the-Job Training So High?', Coen Teulings (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

`Endogenous Growth, Human Capital and Industry Wages', Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Universität Linz and CEPR)