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Future skill shortages in the U.S. economy?
Neumark, David; Johnson, Hans; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 151-167
education to assess the potential for skill imbalances to emerge. Based on our formal projections, we see little likelihood of …
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An Approach of ICT Oriented Learning Pedagogies for Development of SAARC economies
Ganguly, Chandrima; Pal, Sanjay Kumar - In: Journal of Global Economy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 229-244
radical effect on the transformation of education and training in all sectors demonstrating how pervasive ICT has become with …
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From Parents to Children: Intergenerational Transfers---A Case Study
Kumar, Suchitra S - In: Journal of Global Economy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 205-221
This paper attempts to test whether women systematically get less education than their male siblings and is based on … systematically get less parental investment in their education than their male siblings. Thus, pure human capital models of labour …
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Investigation of Effective Factors on the Process of Corporate Entrepreneurship in Iran
Bayekolaei, Mehran. Mokhtari - In: Journal of Global Economy 7 (2011) 3, pp. 222-236
The study of human life from the beginning of the history of creation to the present suggests that the Entrepreneurial factor plays an important role in the development of societies. In other words, we can say that Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs have been active since old times, but they...
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No cohort left behind?
Babcock, Philip; Bedard, Kelly; Schulte, Jennifer - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 3, pp. 347-354
Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged benefits of smallness—of classroom …
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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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Marriage, bereavement and mortality: The role of health care utilization
Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 33-50
There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...
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Social Security and Demographic Trends: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 1, pp. 55-77
The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems isn't just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society? : education benefits individuals, but the societal benefits are likely even greater
Winters, John V. - 2015
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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