This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the …

Canadian economy. We also examine other issues such as the returns to education and the distance from the technological … frontier, the microeconomic versus macroeconomic return to education, and the quantity versus quality of education. Although … the levels of investment in education and the overall quality of the educational system in Canada are fairly high, we …

This document offers a synthesis of the papers presented at the Conference on the Econometrics of Education: Modeling … the state of research in the economics of education. The methods of the economics of education are treated first, followed … by a discussion of two important findings of recent research: the variance of the returns to education, and the risk …

The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher … education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part … of the post–secondary education system, equipping individuals with the skills to enter or re–enter the labour force and …

spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the quality of the education they receive is lower than in other OECD … countries. This paper discusses the performance of education services up to the upper secondary level. It assesses both the … efficiency (outcome for money invested) and the equity of the system and shows that the education system has to be improved …

An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … reallocation of resources as structural adjustment proceeds. Important reforms to decentralise primary and secondary education in … attention on quality control and the place of vocational education. Both are important in the tertiary sector, too, which has …

of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … in formal education, and they do not perform as well as children from other OECD countries. Adults, especially the least … resources devoted to education and training but from inefficiencies and misallocation of spending, and weaknesses in the quality …

role of education on the allocation of talent in a two-sector model where education provides workers information about …-efficient) induces the mediocre to educate, while the least and the most able skip education. When workers know more than firms about … their abilities, the equilibrium set expands to include equilibria where education serves as a signal. Signaling is …