Education and earnings in Peru's informal nonfarm family enterprises

Type Working Paper - Education and Employment
Title Education and earnings in Peru's informal nonfarm family enterprises
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 1989
Page numbers 1-40
URL http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/08/23/000009265_3960928014100/Ren​dered/PDF/multi_page.pdf
Abstract
Education improves the earnings of self-employed individuals very little when they engage in traditional economic activities. It becomes valuable when they take up new methods of production, or engage in activities that require literacy, numeracy, or the ability to adjust to change.\n

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