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Direct linkDiaz, Lelys I. Dinarte; Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Urzúa, Sergio S.; Bassi, Marina – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student academic and labor market outcomes. We design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Length, Higher Education, Labor Market
Carnoy, Martin; And Others – 1980
This volume contains three studies covering separate yet complementary aspects of the problem of the relationships between the educational system and the production system as manpower user. The first monograph on the theories of the markets seeks to answer two questions: what can be learned from the work done on the segmentation of the labor…
Descriptors: Adults, Democracy, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedArriagada, Ana-Maria – Economics of Education Review, 1990
Measures effects of nonformal training on Peruvian workers' employment and earnings. Workers with limited educational attainment face limited training opportunities. Training significantly improves employment probabilities, but not earnings, of private-sector employed or self-employed women. Training significantly affects male private-sector…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Potential
Download full textKing, Elizabeth M. – 1990
This study examined how education and postschool vocational training affect the type and extent of labor market participation of women in Peru. It also estimated monetary returns to different levels of schooling, to formal general and technical schooling, and to training. The sample, which comprised more than 5,600 women in urban and rural Peru,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1999
From 1994 to 1997, social welfare improved in Peru. Areas of improvement included decreased poverty and severe poverty rates, increased school attendance and literacy, and a healthier population. Most important among health improvements was reduced malnutrition among young children. Social improvements stemmed from the favorable overall economic…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged, Economic Development, Educational Attainment
Khandker, Shahidur R. – 1990
Based on a human capital model, this paper uses household survey data from Peru to estimate differences between males and females in labor-market participation, productivity (measured in wages), and economic returns to education. The focus is on human capital, especially education, as a determinant of labor participation and productivity. The…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
