Education and skills

This paper investigates the impact of pupil-teacher ratios on later life earnings. We find no impact on the earnings of men, but a lower pupil-teacher ratio does increase the earnings of women – particularly low ability women.

This paper uses microeconomic data from the U.K. Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages.

We explore the role that economic incentives, particularly changes in wages at the bottom end of the wage distribution, play in determining crime rates.

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses.

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.

This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults.

This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960s.

This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey.

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity.

We use British birth cohort panel data to examine the impact that degree level qualifications and other higher education qualifications have on the earnings of individuals in the medium to longer term.

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

This paper analyzes the relationship between aggregate wages and individual

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 surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by examining the micro-econometric evidence.

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