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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of Thailand’s education and training system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421216
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Zero Returns To Higher Education : Evidence From A Natural Experiment
Avdeev, Stanislav - 2020
-income countries. This paper estimates the causal effect of one year of university education on wages and employment in Russia. In 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093552
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
deregulated craft occupations, the effect on earnings and employment for incumbent workers was slightly negative. The reform also … failed to increase overall employment in the crafts sector and had no effect on self-employed craftsmen.Chapter 5 analyses … employment in manufacturing in their region, adolescents choose more skill-specific occupations in manufacturing. This has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971651
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Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Ghana
Boahen, Emmanuel Adu; Opoku, Kwadwo; Schotte, Simone - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the causal effect of shortening the duration of pre-university education on long-term labour market outcomes in Ghana. We use the education reform of 1987 as a natural experiment, which reduced the years of education prior to university from 17 to 12 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265545
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Did skill development policies promote participation in and benefits from skill education? : evidence from a nation-wide survey
Vincent, Andrea; Rajasekhar, Durgam - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477745
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The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013
into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK. We also examine whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740303
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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes
Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020
We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven hundred children in a variety of strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322040
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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage
Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164784
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Links Between Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes
Shomos, Anthony - 2011
This Productivity Commission staff working paper was released in October 201'3 Literacy and numeracy skills are key components of human capital, which is an important driver of economic growth. This paper utilises data from a 2006 survey on the literacy and numeracy skills of the Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183944
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Does student work really affect educational outcomes? : a review of the literature
Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017
multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the … that are of high academic and policy relevance. One such insight uncovered by our review is that student employment seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732061