Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Accumulating human capital for sustainable development -- 2. Education bubble and widening inequality -- 3. Making education diversification reform happen -- 4. Turning around failing vocational high schools -- 5. Deteriorating skills and weak life-long...

Compensation systems have been shifting away rapidly from a fixed-wage contractual payment basis in many nations around the world ( Ben-Ner & Jones, 1995 ). Particularly prominent is the explosion in the use and interest in employee financial participation schemes, such as profit sharing,...

This paper employs the difference-in-differences empirical strategy and quantile regressions to analyze the effects of sorting and mixing on the academic performance of high school students in South Korea. In Korea, about half of high schools are subject to the equalization policy (EP), and must...

Private tutoring in South Korea is quite pervasive. In 2006, the household sector spent 2.57% of the nation's GDP on private tutoring for primary and secondary school students. Government spending on those students was about 3.5% of GDP, which is about the average level among OECD countries....

Purpose – This paper seeks to describe a cost‐benefit analysis of early childhood education programmes. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis utilises the best evidence available for early education programmes, combined with data from Washington State and economic literature to...