Childcare and early years

The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate.

The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in

This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large

This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing.

The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until

It is widely accepted that an accurate assessment of the extent to which graduates benefit from higher education is crucial for the effective development of policy in this area. For the first time in the UK, this report examines two dimensions of labour market success (employment and wages) in the early 1990s for a group of 33-year-olds who undertook higher education and compares their performance with a similarly-aged group who obtained at least one (and alternatively at least two) A level qualifications but did not proceed into higher education.

In Australia, as in most industrialised countries, there has been a dramatic increase in unemployment rates over the last three decades.

This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the earnings of men.

The subsidy of childcare for pre-school-age children has moved rapidly up the political agenda in the UK, and government policy has developed considerably in this area.

The 'traditional' view, in both educational and labour-market policy, of the transition from education to employment centres on the school-leaving decision - in other words, on a particular point in time when the individual concerned decides to leave full-time education and enter the labour market.

This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the wages of men.

In this paper we examine the concept of intergenerational mobility in earnings and in lifetime or 'permanent' status, and discuss its measurement using regression and quantile transition matrix approaches.