Skills acquisition and its impact upon lives and livelihoods
The ways in which the education and training of individuals affect their future lives and livelihoods are the focus of this study. A set of papers examining the relationships between earnings, education and other individual and household characteristics are being produced, using our household surveys and comparable data sets from other countries. A separate enquiry, using primarily qualitative methods, examines how and under what conditions, the main long- and short-term skill training systems (both public and non-state) contribute to positive labour market outcomes for the poor. It also studies how trainees from poor backgrounds who successfully enter formal or self-employment learn the things that make them succeed.
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Terms of Reference
Report on the skills workshop, India, 4-5 June 2007
Working Papers
Returns to Schooling, Ability and Cognitive Skills in Pakistan
Education, Training and Labour Market Outcomes in Ghana: A review of the Evidence
Health Shocks, Job Quality, and Self-Employment in Africa
Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana
What can Teachers Do to Raise Pupil Achievement?
With education you can do anything; without education there's nothing you can do
Policy Briefs
Public-Private Partnerhips in Education: Some Policy Questions
The pattern of returns to education and its implications
Education, employment and earnings in Pakistan
Skill Acquisition and the significance of informal training sytem in Pakistan - some policy implications
Presentations
Theme 2: Economic and Labour market outcomes. Presentation at the CAG meeting.
Conference Papers
Aslam, M. (2008). Is education a path to gender equality in the labour market in Pakistan? Paper presented at the CSAE lunchtime seminar. Oxford: Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Aslam, M. (2008). What can Teachers do to Raise Pupil Achievement? Paper presented at the Royal Economic Society's Annual Meeting. Warwick: Warwick University.
Aslam, M. (2008). Initial Descriptive Statistics – RECOUP Pakistan 2006/2007. Paper presented at a RECOUP-MHHDC dissemination seminar. Islamabad: MHHDC
Aslam, M. (2008). Returns to Schooling, Ability and Skills. Paper presented at a RECOUP-MHHDC dissemination seminar. Islamabad: MHHDC
Aslam, M. (2008). Maternal Education and Child Health: Understanding the Pathways in Pakistan Paper presented at a RECOUP-MHHDC dissemination seminar. Islamabad: MHHDC
King, K. & Palmer, R. (2009) A technical and vocational education and training policy for UNESCO: a background paper. Presented at the International Workshop on TVET. Bonn, 12-13 January 2009.
King, K. (2007). Education, skills, sustainability, and growth: Complex relations. Paper for the 9th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development 'Going for Growth?' Oxford, 11-13th Sep 07.
Kingdon, G. (2008). Teacher unions, teacher pay and student achievement in India. Paper presented at the conference on 'Economic Incentives in Education: Do They Work?' organised jointly by CES-ifo, University of Munich and Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG), Harvard University, in Munich 15-17 May, 2008.
Kingdon, G. (2008). Age and gender patterns in household health expenditure allocations in South Africa. Paper presented at the 'Shared Growth and Job Creation in Africa, CSAE Annual Conference, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 16-18 March, 2008.
Kingdon, G. (2008). Education, skills and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Pakistan. Paper presented at the World Bank Human Development Network workshop, 19th May 2008.
Kingdon, G. (2008). Education, skills and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Ghana. Paper presented at the World Bank Human Development Network workshop, 19th May 2008.
Kingdon, G, (2008). Functioning of primary schooling in rural north India. Presentation to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, in Delhi on 28 July 2008.
Korboe, D. (2007) Does skills acquisition result in poverty reduction and growth?: Lessons from northern Ghana. Paper presented at the RECOUP Symposium, 'Going for Growth' UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Monk, C., Sandefur, J. & Teal, F. (2007) Skills and earnings in formal and informal urban employment in Ghana. Paper presented at the RECOUP Symposium, 'Going for Growth' UKFIET Conference on International Education and Development, 11-13 September 2007, Oxford.
Training manuals
Aslam, M. & Kingdon, G. (2006c). Enumerator's Training Manual – A Guide for the RECOUP Pakistan Household Survey. Mimeo, CSAE, Department of Economics, University of Oxford. August.
For more information, please email Geeta Kingdon at g.kingdon@ioe.ac.uk