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It is opportune to esplore the conceptual basis of Higher Education Contribution Scheme, examine its revenue and … practical implications, and ask if its institutionhas diminished the access of the disadvantaged to Australia's higher education …
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. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …
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it has taken place, attention needs to be given to a whole range of issues. These include : scale of higher education …, funding, university/government relations, research, diversity, quality, higher education and vocational education and training …. The reforms that have occurred in the Astralian higher education sector in recent years, and those that are currently …
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Outside the United States (U.S.), very little is known about long-run trends in school productivity. We present new evidence using two data series from Australia, where comparable tests are available back to the 1960s. For young teenagers (aged 13-14), we find a small but statistically...
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This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students’ subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils with more than three...
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supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education across countries. …
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It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students’ future … education. The historically most common response to this market failure — a government guarantee to repay student loans to banks … this important international policy reform that has motivated the Chapter. An ICL provides students with finance for …
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This paper illustrates the extent of implicit taxpayer subsidies under four possible income contingent loan (ICL) arrangements for Thailand: TICAL, implemented in 2007 only, a variant of TICAL, and two alternative ICL schemes. The implicit taxpayer subsidy calculated with respect to average...
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This chapter compares and contrasts international experience with respect to higher education financing. The size and …
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This paper examines the impact of changes to Australia’s student financing system on various hypothetical students who choose the Government’s proposed deferred payment options, HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP. The present values of their HECS repayments under the existing (2004) system are compared...
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