signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five … extensive (employment) margin. • The earnings premium has increased more when education is measured as years corresponding to …

capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …

We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our … education has the strongest earnings effect. A one standard deviation increase in years of education raises earnings by almost … 22 percentage points (corresponding to a return to education above 7 percentage points), which compares with a lower …

of the returns to education. …