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Class Size, Education and Wages
Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; van Soest, Arthur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper examines the effects of class size on the decision to stay on in full time schooling at the age of 16 and on wages at later stages in life. Little research exists on the effect of school quality on career decisions, although it has potentially important long-term implications. We use...
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Retaining through training even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 29-48
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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Retaining through training; even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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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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Human Capital and the World Technology Frontier
Madsen, Jakob B. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 676-692
This paper examines the productivity growth effects of educational attainment and its interaction with the distance to the world technology frontier, which is the percentage distance to the country with the highest total factor productivity (TFP) (the United Kingdom or United States), while...
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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Poland's Education and Training: Boosting and Adapting Human Capital
O'Brien, Paul; Paczynski, Wojciech - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … public and private funding. Participation in adult training is low too and, as elsewhere, seems to be concentrated among …
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The Effect of College Employment on Graduation: Evidence from France
Beffy, Magali; Fougère, Denis; Maurel, Arnaud - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of employment while in college on graduation, using data from the French Labour Force Surveys over the period 1992 to 2002. Using spatial variation in low-skill youth unemployment rates to circumvent the endogeneity of college employment decisions, we find a...
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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions: When do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 276-294
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions in Belgium between grandchildren of natives and of women of “non-Western” nationality into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual “pure ethnic gap”. It innovates...
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Identifying the drivers of month of birth differences in educational attainment
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013
Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the start of the academic year. Previous research shows that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils' school lives, but remains evident and statistically significant in...
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