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and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …
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have been the massive improvement in the education of the labor force (especially of women), the resilience of employment …
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. The most interesting of these changes have been the massive improvement in the education of the labor force (especially of …
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opportunities for youths and create unemployment. Workers miss out on on-the-job training opportunities that would have been paid …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …
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It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...
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innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …
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lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
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Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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