for most qualifications. The results from the paper suggest that conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education … obtain no formal qualifications. There is also some evidence that individuals with lower tastes for education, have … significantly higher marginal returns to certain education qualifications. We also find that post-school qualifications …

vocational and professional education as well as its aim to equip learners with employability skills, in line with increasing …

-school qualifications, (c) the longer-term labour market outcomes as represented by job status and earnings. We link results to research …

. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the … returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we exploit another institutional rule - the Easter Leaving Rule - to obtain … unbiased estimates of the effect of qualifications. We find sizeable returns to academic qualifications - increasing the …

. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the … returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we exploit another institutional rule – the Easter Leaving Rule – to obtain … unbiased estimates of the effect of qualifications. We find sizeable returns to academic qualifications – increasing the …

. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the … returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we exploit another institutional rule – the Easter Leaving Rule – to obtain … unbiased estimates of the effect of qualifications. We find sizeable returns to academic qualifications – increasing the …