Linking Education Policy to Labor Market Outcomes

Coperta unu
World Bank Publications, 9 apr. 2008 - 112 pagini
'Linking Education Policy to Labor Market Outcomes' examines current research and new evidence from Ghana and Pakistan representative of two of the poorest regions of the world to assess how education can increase income and help people move out of poverty. This study indicates that in addition to early investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills which produce a high return and lower the cost of later educational investment by making learning at later ages more efficient quality, efficiency, and linkages to the broader macro-economic context also matter. Education and relevant skills are still the key determinants of good labor market outcomes for individuals. However, education policies aimed at improving skills will have a limited effect on the incomes of that skilled workforce or on the performance of a national economy if other policies that increase the demand for these skills are not in place. For education to contribute to national economic growth, policies should aim at improving the quality of education by spending efficiently and by adapting the basic and postbasic curricula to develop the skills increasingly demanded on the global labor market, including critical thinking, problem solving, social behavior, and information technology.
 

Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate

Termeni și expresii frecvente

Pasaje populare

Pagina 20 - Level 1 may, therefore, be at risk not only of difficulties in their initial transition from education to work but also of failure to benefit from further education and learning opportunities throughout life.
Pagina 81 - The Income Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan.
Pagina 85 - Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an unusual policy experiment". American Economic Review 91, 795-813. Duflo, E. (2004). "The medium run effects of educational expansion: Evidence from a large school construction program in Indonesia".
Pagina 82 - Using Siblings to Estimate the Effect of School Quality on Wages.
Pagina 82 - Long-Term Educational Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia.
Pagina 84 - Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa,
Pagina 34 - Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) should increase 9 percent annually between 1995 and 2000, to $45 billion.
Pagina 82 - Altonji. Joseph G., and Rebecca M. Blank. 1999. Race and gender in the labor market. In Handbook of labor economics, volume 3C, edited by Orly C. Ashenfelter and David Card. Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 3143-259. Altonji. Joseph G., and Charles R. Pierret. 2001. Employer learning and statistical discrimination.
Pagina 83 - School Quality and Cognitive Achievement Production: A Case Study for Rural Pakistan.
Pagina 84 - The causal effect of education on earnings", Center far Labor Economics Working Paper No. 2, UC-Berkeley. Cawley, J., J. Hcckman and E. Vytlacil (1998), "Cognitive ability and the rising return to education", NBER Working Paper No.

Informații bibliografice