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Towards better Schools and more Equal Opportunities for Learning in Italy
Boarini, Romina - 2009
Compulsory school education in Italy produces poor results in terms of 15-year olds’ performance on PISA tests … choices among the different types of upper secondary school. Large differences in pupils’ performance between regions cannot … be explained by the quantity of resources available; separating the influence of socio-economic conditions from school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444978
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert W.R.; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector. Resource availability per pupil has increased significantly over the past decade in a number of countries; often in attempting to exploit the link between educational attainment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045647
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Enhancing Educational Performance in Australia
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
life. A key challenge for the school sector is to reduce the achievement gaps of the lowest performing students, while … improving overall literacy and numeracy outcomes. Greater autonomy at the school level and improvements in teaching quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045666
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The Policy Determinants of Investment in Tertiary Education
Martins, Joaquim Oliveira; Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This paper assesses how policies and institutions affect private returns to invest in tertiary human capital, the ability of individuals to finance this investment and the institutional characteristics of tertiary education systems. Focusing on core tertiary education services, the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045712
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The Education Challenge in Mexico: Delivering Good Quality Education to All
Guichard, Stéphanie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
The growth of potential GDP in Mexico is not fast enough to narrow the income gap with other OECD countries at a sufficient pace. The persistent weakness in human capital development contributes to this situation. In particular, Mexicans spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045870
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Improving Education Outcomes in Germany
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
stratification in the school system; and making tertiary education more attractive and responsive to labour-market requirements. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045907
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The Private Internal Rates of Return to Tertiary Education: New Estimates for 21 OECD Countries
Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This study provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return (IRR) to tertiary education for women and men in 21 OECD countries, for the years between 1991 and 2005. IRR are computed by estimating labour market premia on cross-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046002
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Poland's Education and Training: Boosting and Adapting Human Capital
O'Brien, Paul; Paczynski, Wojciech - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and reallocation of resources as structural adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046010
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Investment in Human Capital Through Post-Compulsory Education and Training: Selected Efficiency and Equity Aspects
Blöndal, Sveinbjörn; Field, Simon; Girouard, Nathalie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002
This paper examines various efficiency and equity aspects related to the skill acquisition of young people and older adults. The analysis suggests that such human capital investment is associated with significant labour-market gains for individuals, including higher post-tax earnings and better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046021
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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital
Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human capital gap with other OECD countries. Despite progress in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046031