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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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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain
McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019
barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111044
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Strengthening skill use and school-to-work transitions in the Czech Republic
Araújo, Sónia; Maleček, Petr - 2015
The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school leavers without sufficient qualification. In addition, declining PISA scores and a rising share of low achievers are raising concerns about the quality of the future labour force....
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Assessing China's skills gap and inequalities in education
Molnár, Margit; Wang, Boqing; Gao, Ruidong - 2015
quantified. This paper aims at gaging the skills and knowledge gap of tertiary graduates of universities and vocational colleges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399433
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Improving education quality in South Africa
Murtin, Fabrice - 2013
South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...
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Reaching high : occupational sorting and higher education wage inequality in the UK
Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren - 2012
We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...
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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system
Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska - 2014
This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized …) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices, technological innovation is costly since training becomes obsolete …
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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality
Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014
SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’...
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Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand
Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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Lifetime inequality and redistribution
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012
In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial...
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