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 …

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 …

. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also … the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …

capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …

from high unemployment, large gender gaps in activity and below-average incomes. Refugees are particularly vulnerable … local level is modest. At school, their children are often put at a disadvantage by an education system which tends to … successful integration. Education requires both general equity-enhancing reforms, starting at early childhood, and targeted …