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Education, vocational training and R&D: towards new forms of labor market regulation
Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
efficiency as globalization was setting up. In this paper we shed light on the increasing role which innovation is called to … throughout which R&D become embedded in nowadays societies, evidence clearly reveals how innovation strategies are to be found so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220098
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The education-innovation gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167978
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392484
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College curriculum, diverging selectivity, and enrollment expansion
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 2016
We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547733
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College expansion and curriculum choice
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506322
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and Through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927186
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion
Kaganovich, Michael - 2016
We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979106
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852
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College Expansion and Curriculum Choice
Kaganovich, Michael - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023915