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 …

This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the … three countries, the analysis finds evidence that youth who drop out due to a household income shock have worse employment …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and Uruguay according to the task …

This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes … employment in rural Argentina, findings suggest that key determinants of access to employment and productivity in nonfarm … activities are education, skills, land access, location, and gender. Employment analyses show that women have higher probability …

This paper investigates the differential impacts of foreign ownership on wages for different types of workers (in terms … effects models are estimated. Several findings emerge. First, foreign firms pay higher wages relative to their domestic … education, the larger on average are the wage premiums for those who work for foreign firms. Third, longer hours of work in …

of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of … openness to experience and emotional stability?is only correlated with employment, and only when using the structural latent …