enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational … protection from lay off. Similarly, the more education a worker has the better his/her chances of finding new employment once …

This study consists of basic research on rates of return to higher education in Indonesia. Four different techniques to …-Douglas production function, and the nested-CES production function. Several topics relating to rates of return to higher education in … Indonesia are also discussed. They include background comparisons of education and research and development in Indonesia, Korea …

This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary … education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be …

Employment Policy," which guaranteed the employment of every university graduate in Ghana regardless of area of specialization … graduate labor market in Ghana. The problem has been compounded by the increasing number of liberal arts graduates coming out … every year to join an already saturated labor market. The problem has become so serious that no concerned Ghanaian can …

"education gap". Due to institutional developments that have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, it is anticipated that wage … compression will be attenuated and returns to higher education strengthened. If so, then the extent to which socioeconomic … inequality and returns to education through the mid-1990s in Italy. Cross-sections from four waves of a nationally representative …

education and skills in the labor force which are extrapolated into the future by manpower requirement approach. … Indonesia. The rate of return analysis was conducted using earnings data taken from the 1987 Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS). The … employment-output elasticity from the Cobb Douglas and Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production functions. …

produced by monitoring labor force activity and the movement of wages and employment for workers with specific levels of …. This paper considers the relation of education to per-capita growth in the medium term in seven East-Asian countries. This … includes in addition to basic education the relation of higher education via secondary education and R&D capital, and the …

In the first chapter I study racial differences in the impact of education on labor income volatility. Using panel data … on black and white males from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics I find that education reduces labor income volatility … worker's productivity increasing more with education for blacks, so that more-skilled blacks face less labor income …

variation there and we explore potential explanations for this outcome through related capital and labor mobility patterns. The … complementaritiesstory. Unemployment of the least-skilled workers appears lower in areas with a higher share of college educated labor and … to regional shocks by educational level brought about in part by Central European labor-market institutions, such as …

The role of skilled labor in the modern economy and its importance in explaining trends in wage inequality and … productivity has been a focus of a broad strand of research in economics. Labor is an input into production that is very different … that affects their access to labor and potentially affects their decisions on the technology they will adopt. While many …