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Swiss women are now as well educated as their male counterparts. However, progress remains to be made in the job market where both the supply and price of female labour are below that of men. While the participation rate for women is high and rising, it is offset by a heavy incidence of...
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policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …
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education system is a long-term mission and involves raising its pedagogical strength and orientation towards professional needs …
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Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
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This paper investigates if higher public spending in education and better teacher qualifications are related to student … investment in public education and higher teacher qualifications can help increase average performance and reduce the impact that … variation in education performance in Colombia, a relatively high percentage when compared to those found by other studies …
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This paper proposes and estimates a model of demand for and supply of graduations in tertiary education, which is then … to education have remained high in spite of rising educational attainment levels, the paper accords a great deal of … future scenarios of demand for tertiary education, pointing to increases between 30 and 60 per cent across OECD countries …
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human capital and productivity improvements. While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be … education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …
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introduced major structural reforms to fight poverty, improve the quality of education, create more jobs in the formal sector and …
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Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
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should be raised in early and tertiary education to enhance skills. Despite generous public support, overall students …
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