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Quality of higher education and earnings: Regression discontinuity evidence from the French Baccalaureate
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has predominantly focused on the returns to the most selective universities. However, less is known about the extent to which these gains are realized for the academically marginal...
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Endogenous Growth with Public Factors and Heterogeneous Human Capital Producers
Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
If government revenues from a flat-rate income tax are spent on public factors and public factors are used for human capital production and human capital is used for the production of technical progress, then a higher rate of taxation will lead to a higher rate of technical progress if steady...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108048
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Humanitarian aid, internal displacement and social impacts in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W.; Osman, Kamal M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study presented here reviews activities of NGOs in Sudan by surveying and studying the activities of Save the Children of United Kingdom. Activities of NGOs in Sudan were always a controversial issue that resulted in the expulsion of many in 2009. There were also precedents of such...
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General equilibrium models on skill acquisition and economic development: some comments
Bobkova, Nina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Deme et al. (2005, DFN) present a general equilibrium model for the case of Lesotho with a rising step skill acquisition function. DFN show that only a large amount of government expenditure on education, training and skill acquisition can pull the economy out of its inertia. As a comment on...
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Human capital investment and growth: A dynamic education model
Ben Mimoun, Mohamed; Raies, Asma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper aims to explicitly determine the distribution of human capital across hierarchic educational stages along the transition process, and to analyse the determinants of its evolution. We apply optimal control principles in a model of endogenous growth with two successive stages of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836837
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Skilled migration and education policies: Is there still scope for a Bhagwati tax?
Scalera, Domenico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The Bhagwati brain drain tax proposal dating back to more than thirty years ago has been criticized from different viewpoints. In particular, recent literature has pointed out that this tax would hamper accumulation of human capital by reducing gains from skilled migration. In this paper, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497695
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Earlier Research Work on Tharparkar and Sindh Barrage, and Similar Studies Related to Demographic, Social and Economic Conditions
Herani, Gobind M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This study is earlier research works done on Tharparkar and Sindh barrage, and similar studies related to demographic, social and economic conditions and chapter-2 as a literature review of the thesis of Ph.D submitted in 2002. Purpose of the chapter was to give the complete picture of both...
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100 years of educational reforms in Europe: a contextual database
Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This report presents the macro data on educational reforms collected for the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The first and chore part provides an analytical overview of the educational reforms that may have affected the skill level of Europe’s elderly population....
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Fixing Europe's youth unemployment and skills mismatch, can public financial support to SMEs be effective? The case of the European Commission and European Investment Bank joint in...
Floreani, Vincent Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
crisis". Pope Francis - July the 22nd, 2013. Youth unemployment is a critical issue across the European Union with 5 ….5 million people unemployed among the 18-24 years age group (23.3% unemployment rate). Evidence reveals that youth unemployment … people. This approach seems relevant and sustainable as it addresses the two sources of youth unemployment and ought to …
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The hard access to the labour market of youth leaving school: what policy choices?
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Youth leaving school and searching for a job suffer of work experience gap. This is very similar to the skill mismatch … labour markets augment the risk that youth make a mistake in their searching investment, or send wrong signals to the firms … inactivity. A comparative analysis shows that the youth condition is not the same all over the OECD countries. To help young …
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