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Improving Education Quality in South Africa

Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 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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Raising Education Outcomes in Greece

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Despite progress over the past decades, Greece?s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education. Resources devoted to education are also modest....

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Enhancing Educational Performance in Australia

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part of the post–secondary education system,...

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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 economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and reallocation of resources as structural adjustment...

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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital

Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human capital gap with other OECD countries. Despite progress in...

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Labour Market Matters - October 2013

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013

Literacy is central to the improvement and betterment of any society. Individuals cannot fully engage in social and political discourse, and are more likely to become less-than-equals in society without basic literacy to pursue their goals. On the individual level, more literate individuals tend...

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Endogenous Growth with Intertemporally Dependent Preferences

Ferraguto, Giuseppe; Pagano, Patrizio - Banca d'Italia - 2000

This paper presents an endogenous growth model with intertemporally dependent preferences and "Ak" technology. We … convergence. Finally, we show that the alternative departure from the standard assumption of isoelastic preferences represented by … results highlight the importance of preferences in the dynamics of growth, a point neglected in most of the literature. …

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Schooling and youth mortality: learning from a mass military exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - Banca d'Italia - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from...

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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...

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How Important are School Principals in the Production of Student Achievement?

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Smith, Justin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

As school leaders, principals can influence student achievement in a number of ways, such as: hiring and firing teachers, monitoring instruction, and maintaining student discipline, among others. We measure the effect of individual principals on gains in student math and reading achievement...

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