-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

This paper considers how a state such as Michigan can increase the economic development benefits of higher education …. Research evidence suggests that higher education increases local economic development principally by increasing the quality of … education can be increased by: 1) competent management of conventional economic development programs that focus on business …

This paper presents a systematic, baseline picture of workplace education programs in small and medium-sized businesses … offering workplace education programs, what are the characteristics of the programs being provided, and what are the impacts of … opportunity to receive education in basic skills through their workplace. …

empirical evidence. We provide quantitative evidence of the magnitude of economic effects of higher education and medical …. We also provide quantitative evidence on how much higher education institutions can boost a metropolitan economy through …, holding worker characteristics constant, whereas the higher education industry pays below average wages; the wage standards of …