Conventional wisdom is that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages and income inequality falls with wider access to schooling. Yet, since the early 1970s, inequality climbed, while educational attainment and worker skills gained and dispersion in schooling levels...

The job market in Canada has changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. Improvements in technology allow business to do more with less labour and to demand higher education levels and more technical skills for entry-level jobs. Youth unemployment has remained high since the 1982 recession....

This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and governance. Using case studies and experiences from different parts of the continent, this book assesses how the potential for human resources, in terms of education, can be leveraged...

The dramatic expansion of the education system and the transformation of the economy in China provide an opportunity to investigate how the labor market rewards skills. Between 2007 and 2018, the overall return to cognitive skills is virtually constant at 10%, whereas the college premium drops...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Identifying future directions for IC research in education: a literature review -- Ten years of using knowledge balance sheets in Austrian public universities -- Human capital loss in an academic performance measurement system --...

Cover -- Transition to Success: Training Students to Lead Peer Groups in Higher Education -- Contents -- Preface -- The Scope of This Book -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Students as Peer Leaders -- CHAPTER 2: The Group Dynamic Process -- CHAPTER 3: The Peer Leadership Process -- CHAPTER 4:...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- CHAPTER 2: The Growth of Strategic Learning and Development -- CHAPTER 3: The Learning and Development Cycle -- CHAPTER 4: The Evaluation Phase -- CHAPTER 5: Development Needs Analysis -- CHAPTER 6 :...

The second edition of this bestselling book, 'Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs,' guides you through a proven, results-based approach to calculating the Return on Investment in training and performance improvement programs. Jack Phillips has composed...