Authors


CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.

Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.

Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/re.ifs.2024.0884
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Blundell, R et al. (1998). The Returns from Education and Training to the Individual, the Firm and the Economy: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/returns-education-and-training-individual-firm-and-economy-review-theoretical-and (accessed: 24 June 2025).
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