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minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …-setting on the part of employers. The use of job evaluation schemes within the workplace is shown to be associated with a smaller …
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received less attention is education quality. If technological change that reduces the reliance of production on emissions is … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … reliance on emissions for production. Having higher quality education-defined as the level of cognitive skills attained by …
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type …
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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …
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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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learn remotely are more likely to repeat grades and end their education early, especially where grades repetition is more … common: Spain, Germany, and Italy. Education policies should be designed accordingly. …
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