Education and skills

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

In this paper, we offer an in-dept investigation of NVQ qualifications, trying to shed some light as to why a seemingly beneficial certification of skill appears to hurt labour market prospects.

In this paper we investigate recent trends in childcare use amongst families in Great Britain, and provide a thorough comparison of the different household survey and administrative datasets.

In this paper, we focus on two key educational choices and estimate the corresponding individual wage returns for variously defined marginal learners.

In this analysis we seek to shed light on the extent to which credit constraints may affect individuals choices to stay in full-time education past the age of 16 and to complete higher education (HE) qualifications in the United Kingdom, and on how this has varied between individuals born in 1958 and in 1970.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large nutrition programme in rural Colombia on children nutritional status, school achievement and female labour supply.

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work.

Many readers are no doubt currently deciding whether or not to attend higher education.

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 we find, unlike most of the existing literature, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for those with higher ability indicating that education can act as a substitute for observed ability.

We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.

The wage gap between male and female workers has narrowed in both the US and the UK over the past twenty five years.

This study was commissioned by the Department for Education

We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings.

his paper uses the measures of basic skills (or functional literacy) in the International Adult Literacy Survey to examine the impact of education and basic skills on earnings across a large number of countries.

The Higher Education (HE) Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons on the 31st of March 2004. Here we suggest one way in which the implementation of the proposals can be simplified.

This paper reports on the short run impact of one of the U.K. government's flagship education policies, the Excellence in Cities (EiC) program.