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Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper …, we study the drivers of such externalities by conducting the first meta- analysis of the social returns to education …
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …
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Widespread reliance on private tutoring has raised concerns over the hidden costs of Egypt's "free" education system …. This paper examines the drivers of tutoring at different levels of education, using nationally representative survey data … education system has fostered the growth of a diverse tutoring market. In general secondary school, tutoring has become a social …
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A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on the quality of parent–child interactions and children's cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program, controlling for the period when the program is...
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This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018 … education are three times greater for higher education compared with vocational education, and the returns to education for … education is a policy priority and there is a need to investigate the labor market relevance of vocational education. Higher …
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