education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the … participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying … population. The Swedish adult education program is unprecedented in its size, and enrollment is universally available at …

The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the …

hypothesis. In addition, we examine to what extent workers with more years of schooling earn higher wages than their less … surplus schooling earn somewhat lower wages at this job level. For the other job complexity levels we find no evidence for … difference between schooling of the inflow and the outflow increases in cyclical downturns. At the same time, workers with …

hypothesis. In addition, we examine to what extent workers with more years of schooling earn higher wages than their less … surplus schooling earn somewhat lower wages at this job level. For the other job complexity levels we find no evidence for … difference between schooling of the inflow and the outflow increases in cyclical downturns. At the same time, workers with …

exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …