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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"

Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015

, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …

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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes: Evidence from the health and retirement study

Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017

Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...

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How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods?

Kiessling, Lukas - 2020

This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...

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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case

Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - 2014

This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...

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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...

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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects

Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...

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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity

Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019

One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...

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Human capital spending, inequality, and growth in middle-income Asia

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Lee, Sang-hyop; Park, Donghyun - 2017

Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...

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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...

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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …

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