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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Este trabajo realiza una primera aproximación, mediante la técnica del Análisis Envolvente de Datos (DEA), respecto a la medida de la eficiencia técnica, en su labor docente, de las unidades funcionales pertenecientes a la rama de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas de las nueve universidades...

An extraordinary proliferation of entrepreneurship courses and programs was and still is underway in colleges and universities worldwide. In Europe this phenomenon has been further stimulated by the focus on Entrepreneurship as key objective for the implementation of the Europe2020 strategy (EC,...