With more than ten million children out of school, Nigeria is the country furthest away from universal primary education.  Low access to school is concentrated in the north of the country where a tradition of religious education has been seen as both a constraint and an opportunity.  This...

With more than 10million children out of school, Nigeria is the country furthest away from universal primary education. A tradition of religious education in northern Nigeria has been seen as an opportunity for expanding access to secular education. This paper demonstrates two constraining...

With more than ten million children out of school, Nigeria is the country furthest away from universal primary education. Low access to school is concentrated in the north of the country where a tradition of religious education has been seen as both a constraint and an opportunity. This paper...

It has been argued that the use of personal networks in the hiring process has a positive influence on the wages of referred individuals. However, the value of recommendations to the employer varies according to the type of vacancy to be filled and the provider of information on job applicants....

This paper examines the distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of the 1993/94 Household Budget Survey. The aggregate distributional impact of public education is found to be progressive although the incidence varies according to the level of education under...

Estimates are produced for differences between the ceteris paribus earnings of union and non-union workers in the UK and the US over time.

Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong.