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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …
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This paper aims to show the evolution of the role and importance of education in economic theory, especially in … of the role and importance of education in the development process. Presentation of the classification theory refers to … theories of interdependence of education and development (theory of human capital, human development and approach to the …
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differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …
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period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States, adopting a cohort approach that differs from the period approach widely used in prior research. We compare the mean intended number of children and percentage intending to be...
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The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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nexus noted in demographic and biomedical research is especially relevant for women who pursue postgraduate education … because of the potential overlap of education completion, early career stages, and family formation. The results show that … women with postgraduate education differ from women with college education in terms of the timing of the first birth …
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groups. Those with low education, women, African-Americans, and Hispanics display particularly low levels of literacy …, and poor borrowing behavior can all be linked to ignorance of basic financial concepts. While financial education programs …
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