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Education in a Changing World : Flexibility, Skills, and Employability

Wang, Yidan - 2012

New technologies, globalization, the information revolution, and labor market changes have affected the world economy … on an unprecedented scale. As a consequence, the demand for a skilled workforce has increased, world trade and migration … prepare youth for the world of work. It specifically looks at the education status of four types of countries at different …

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World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise

2017

Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global … assessments reveal that many young people around the world, especially those who are poor or marginalized, are leaving school …

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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019

the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …

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Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)

Altinok, Nadir; Angrist, Noam; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2018

This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 countries and regions over 1965-2015. The globally comparable achievement outcomes were constructed by linking standardized, psychometrically-robust international and regional...

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Learning-adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : defining a new macro measure of education : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report

Filmer, Deon; Rogers, Halsey; Angrist, Noam; Sabarwal, … - 2018

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of schooling in a population-is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns out to be a major omission. As recent research shows, students in different countries who...

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Export Quality in Advanced and Developing Economies : Evidence from a New Data Set

Henn, Christian - 2017

growth rate of quality. Within any given product line, quality converges over time to the world frontier. Institutional …

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Optimal Targeting under Budget Constraints in a Humanitarian Context

Gigliarano, Chiara - 2017

food voucher program for refugees. The estimations focus on the 2014 food vouchers administered by the World Food Programme …

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains : Theory, Evidence, and Open Questions

Ruta, Michele - 2017

Preferential trade agreements today are more numerous and deeper than they were a quarter century ago. Do deep agreements promote countries' integration into global value chains? What are the economic mechanisms? How do countries choose their trade agreement partners? Would the undoing of deep...

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A BIT Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets

Gomez Mera, Laura - 2017

How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...

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Longevity and Lifetime Education : Global Evidence from 919 Surveys

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul - 2017

Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth cohorts between 1905 and 1988. The study finds significant positive effects...

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