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countries, it tends to have a relatively wide dispersion of skills both amongst school students and in the working age …) in raising skills among the less able, in new generations of school leavers. Taken over all, the paper suggests a two … the skills of the less able entering the workforce. Interventions in early childhood and primary schooling are likely to …
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The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
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century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …
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much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on …
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have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …
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This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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This monograph, which has been prepared as a Research Report to the New Zealand (New Zealand) Treasury, undertakes three main tasks: (1) describing the various forms of tangible and intangible human capital, their relationship to "capabilities" affecting human well-being, and the channels...
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