A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor … market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic … participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these “nonproduction” benefits of education. …

This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past … 25 years. It highlights the trends on how the labor market used educated workers. It also reviews how education has …

This paper aims to show the evolution of the role and importance of education in economic theory, especially in … of the role and importance of education in the development process. Presentation of the classification theory refers to … theories of interdependence of education and development (theory of human capital, human development and approach to the …

period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …