market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …

In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force … workers, compared to those with no formal education, an additional year of literacy education increases yearly return by 2 ….3%, primary education by 3.4%, middle school education by 3.7%, secondary school education by 4.5%, higher secondary education by …