Syftet med denna studie är att uppskatta den privatekonomiska lönsamheten av att ha deltagit i Kunskapslyftet. Med deltagare i Kunskapslyftet avses här personer som studerade under höstterminen 1997 med det särskilda utbildningsbidraget UBS och som avslutade sina studier före årsskiftet...

This paper evaluates the Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden which\ offers full-time comprehensive education at compulsory or upper secondary level to unemployed aged between 25 and 55 year old. Using register data, the AEI\ is compared with Labor Market Training\ (LMT) which mainly...

This paper evaluates the effects of comprehensive adult education on wage earnings of the long-term unemployed, an essentially unexplored issue. We use register data pertaining to a large sample of long-term unemployed persons in Sweden who either enrolled in the comprehensive adult education...

The Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden was introduced in the autumn of 1997 and generated a massive expansion of subsidized adult comprehensive education. This paper uses data on a large sample of unemployed persons aged 25 to 55 to evaluate the effects of comprehensive upper secondary...

Governments in the US, Canada and Europe have expressed an ambition to stimulate education of older. In this paper, we analyze if there are effects on annual earnings of formal education for participants aged 42-55 at the time of enrolment in 1994-1995. The analysis explores longitudinal...