people, who did apprenticeships but have no formal education, the training increases their earnings by 50%.  However this … training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector.  In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey … with detailed questions on the background, training and earnings of workers in both wage and self-employment to ask whether …

In this paper we ask what can account for the continuing strong preference for academic education in Africa where the … function and the importance of firm effects.  High levels of acadmic education have far higher returns than those available …

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of … willingness of firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provision empirically observed. It is … assumptions, when training and specific human capital are complements, the firm would pay for the former in order to induce the …

In this paper we ask how the returns to academic education compare with the return to two types of training drawing on … academic education. However as the return to education rises with its level the return to any form of vocational training is … unobservables to be identified in assessing returns to both vocational education and training. …

This study employs the pseudo-panel approach to estimate returns to education among income earners in Sri Lanka …-2008 for workers born during 1953-1974.  The results show that for males, one extra year of education increases monthly … per cent on average.  It also suggests that males with higher ability seem to be acquiring more years of education …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a …, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we can control for a wide range of …

This is an attempt to view the relationships involving education and income as forming a system, and one that can … education varies greatly.  There are three main strands to the paper.  One examines the determinants of enrolment, and finds … that poverty has an adverse effect on both the quality and quantity of education - so contributing to a poverty trap.  The …