"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors … sector. Workers in the public sector earn higher private rates of return to education than do private sector workers with …

sector, which encompasses both health and education. The World Bank's Human Development sector work covers almost the entire … human life cycle, from maternal and neo-natal health, health insurance, early childhood education, school health and … nutrition, basic education, to teacher reform, secondary education and youth skills, higher education, medical and health …

-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers … appropriate their productivity gains of education through wages. On the other hand, workers with more experience are more …

"This paper examines the differentiated outcomes of vocational and general secondary academic education, particularly … in terms of employment opportunities, labor market earnings, and access to tertiary education in Indonesia. With data … access to tertiary education; rather, it is the lower academic achievement associated with attendance at vocational school …

"In determining whether a country's higher education system should be expanded, it is important for policymakers first … to determine the extent to which high private returns to post-secondary education are an indication of the scarcity of … graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the …

This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of … education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than … mere access to education, is what impacts economic growth. These world-renowned researchers use data on economic growth and …

to formal education across ages. In the absence of long-term longitudinal data, the paper estimates rates of return for … simulated re-entry into the education system. The estimations use the method of internal rate of return and are based on … observed education-age-earnings profiles from the Colombian national household survey. It finds that rates of return to all …

women, returns are highest at the lowest quantile. The returns to education increased during the past decade. The authors do …