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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case … and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between …
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months both in paid employment, and in employment, education and training (EET) between age 17 and 42 than comparable …
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investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training … private returns from recent training than individuals with the same experience and less education. More experienced …
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migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …
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Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …
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We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
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hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … predict level-k behavior. Second, older children respond to information about the cognitive ability of their opponent, which … whether children respond to intentions in a gift-exchange game, while cognitive ability has no influence, suggesting that …
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-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …
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differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health … development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …
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