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Policies to expand digital skills for the machine age
Martin, John P. - 2017
A new technological epoch is underway – the so-called Machine Age –reflecting advances in artificial intelligence, digitalisation and Big Data. Some commentators have claimed that this epoch is different from previous ones in that it will produce large-scale technological unemployment, while...
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Delayed graduation and university dropout: A review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
(i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their …
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Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020
the German apprenticeship system that offers three-year professional training for the majority of school leavers … decreased the number of new highly educated apprentices by 3%-5%; average treatment effects on those indecisive at school …
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What drives social returns to education? A meta-analysis
Cui, Ying; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
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 literature. We analyse over 1,000 estimates from 31 articles...
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
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Investing in human capital to boost growth!
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
The Italian economy performs well below the EU average. The reason is a dramatic and persistent low rate of investment, always invoked but never supported by national and supra-national institutions. However, investment to increase the quantity and quality of human capital is key to boost...
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Unintended Consequences of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2023
The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in secondary schools to evaluate its effect on student...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …
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Educating children with disabilities: Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Niger
Hang'andu, Privilege; Mensah, Emmanuel Kodwo; Nikolova, … - 2023
Education is a fundamental human right and it is a global Sustainable Development Goal to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded from educational opportunities at great cost to...
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