majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … heterogeneity both in terms of segregation and wage gaps across education levels, occupations, industries and sectors. Racial wage … decomposition techniques, this study furthermore provides evidence of large heterogeneity in returns to education and a shift in the …

market outcomes and find that the reform significantly increased enrollment in formal education, especially for females and …

Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …

Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …