-run earnings advantages of general training are found for females with limited prior education and among metropolitan residents. …

exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …

statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second …, however, is devoted to possible lessons for India from Europe, in particular from countries with low youth unemployment like …

measured by the number of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in percent of the total youth population. Korea …’s NEET figures are at the top in OECD countries, especially for youth with tertiary education. This paper throws some light … education and vocational training systems that emphasise middle level and market oriented skills are identified as institutional …

women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the …