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Se propone un análisis descriptivo de la interacción entre educación e inserción al matrimonio y a la vida activa en un contexto de pirámide de población regresiva y de expansión educativa, en particular en las generaciones jóvenes de mujeres, que desde hace un cuarto de siglo aventajan...
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Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of economic privilege in the determination of school...
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En este trabajo se estudian los determinantes individuales del capital social en España. El capital social influye en el desarrollo económico, tal y como demuestran numerosos estudios, y se puede definir como la confianza, tanto interpersonal como institucional, y los aspectos positivos de las...
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Although not exclusive to the Republic of Korea´s educational system, the pervasiveness of private tutoring, and its consequences, serve to distinguish it from systems operated in other countries. However, the identification of inefficiencies linked to this phenomenon have seen the educational...
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Considerable effort has been exercised in the construction of school achievement tests that provide international comparability of results. One of the most widely accepted studies for international comparison of student achievement is PISA. Argentina, Chile and Mexico mean score in language was...
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Los indicadores habitualmente utilizados para medir el fracaso escolar ponen en evidencia la clara necesidad de España por mejorar su alta tasa de abandono escolar prematuro, el nivel educativo de la población de 20 a 24 años y las dificultades de comprensión lectora de los alumnos. A pesar...
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No hay duda acerca de la importancia que la ciencia tiene en la consecución de los resultados económicos, los niveles de bienestar, la capacidad de crecimiento y los procesos de innovación. Los sistemas de ciencia y tecnología están modificando su definición tradicional hacia otras...
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This paper demonstrates how the probability of enrolment in tertiary schools evolves for different social groups in Poland over the period of educational boom and expansion of tertiary schooling institutions. It also investigates how the socio-economic status influences the choices between...
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In this paper we use unique retrospective family background data from wave 13th of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyze the relevance of family background, in particular parental education - separated for fathers and mothers -, and gender on differential educational achievement....
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The ratio of skill to unskilled labour stocks in the economy is widely acknowledged to have an important role for development. Can education policy do anything to affect the evolution of this ratio? This paper shows that it can, and it also shows that the actual effect of education policy...
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