This paper investigates if higher public spending in education and better teacher qualifications are related to student … investment in public education and higher teacher qualifications can help increase average performance and reduce the impact that … variation in education performance in Colombia, a relatively high percentage when compared to those found by other studies …

Education is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family … background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history … education does not appear to be the leveller it was hoped to be. …

Overall, the education system fares well by international comparison. Slovenia has one of the highest shares of the … population aged 25 to 64 to have completed at least upper secondary education, and ranks high in international educational … of the education system. Low enrolment rates in short vocational education programmes and in certain higher education …

In this paper we document the impact of education levels on labour market outcomes from 1994 to 2010 using national … household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … in the reward to education level are evident for Africans versus the overall population, between urban and rural areas …

In this paper we include measures of school quality in regressions determining the labour market premiums to education … proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … earnings, controlling for education level. Increasing the matric exemption score by 10 percentage points increases earnings, on …