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Women constitute almost half of the population of the world. Education for women is the best way to improve the health … that lack of woman education can be an impediment to the country’s economic development. In India, women achieve far less … education that of men. As per the Census report 2001, the literacy rate of women is 54.16 per cent and that of men is 65.38 per …
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This paper concentrates on the contribution of education to economic growth of Pakistan during 1971-2008.The study uses … show that secondary education contributes significantly to the Real GDP Per Capita in Pakistan. The elementary education … confirmed the existence of long run relationship in education and Real GDP Per Capita. It is therefore, suggested to keep …
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The way the expresssion "applied economics" was employed changed deeply from one author to another. In this article we examine the meaning of this concept in Leon Walras' and Wassily Leontief's works regarding mathematical models of general interdependence and general equilibrium. It appears...
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Depuis les années 1990, l’histoire de la pensée économique s’intéresse aux « marges » de la discipline et notamment aux pratiques économiques, à la profession d’économiste ainsi qu’à l’économie appliquée et à l’économie empirique. Elle n’est plus cantonnée à une...
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Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge filter among new firms and industries (Acts, et al., 2005; Audrescht, 2007), it has not been studied the phenomenon of entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover...
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This article continues on a number of previous studies by other scientists in investigating secondary education … studies on measuring the efficiency of public (secondary) education sector as well as some conceptual and methodological … secondary education. The empirical results show that technical efficiency in secondary education varies significantly across the …
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The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 OECD countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multi-level approach we estimate these...
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A factual and descriptive analysis of the employment situation in Bulgaria showed that the transition to a market economy has led to a substantial reduction of employment. The economic restructuring has begun in 1990 has proved very difficult, and the privatization of the large industrial...
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measured by the share of people in the labor force aged 25-64 having completed at least upper secondary education. The outcome … suggests that the share of people with upper secondary education enters insignificantly the regression model. Moreover, its … short-run accumulation is related negatively to real output per capita. When tertiary education is considered, the result is …
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the efficiency of the Spanish public and publicly-subsidised private high schools using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) fed by the results provided by a hierarchical linear model (HLM) applied to PISA-2006 (Programme for International Students Assessment)...
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