In Jamaica, structural adjustment policies have severely limited employment opportunities in the formal sector, and approximately 40% of the labor force engages in "informal" self-employment. Interviews with 250 self-employed microentrepreneurs revealed that effects on income of experience and various types of education differed between…

Major intergenerational changes in occupational structure, common in many countries, can invalidate conclusions drawn from correlation/path analysis studies of status attainment (Wisconsin model). Longitudinal data on Chilean youth of different social strata and the Chilean occupational structure are used to explain education's role in…

Examines equity aspects of Greek "free" higher education by analyzing differential benefits and costs of public subsidization and by determining individual benefits of education by social origin. Finds that the poor pay proportionately more for schooling (through taxes) and receive less in terms of educational attainment and educational…