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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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employment status or other measures of human capital, such as health and education. These findings have policy relevance, since …
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The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling …. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for … increased. The returns to higher education have increased the most. The fact that the more educated have improved their position …
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primary, secondary, and tertiary education vs. no schooling or incomplete primary schooling -- that drives the decline in …
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According to T.W. Schultz, the returns to human capital are highest in economic environments experiencing unexpected price, productivity, and technology shocks that create "disequilibria." In such environments, the ability of firms and individuals to adapt their resource allocations to shocks...
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This paper examines the performance of globally engaged firms in Argentina in the past decade. Using highly …
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implemented in 70 state schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A control group receiving standard teacher training was compared with …
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data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the …
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liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …
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experiment in the Province of La Rioja Argentina, that randomly assigned 105 public primary schools to: (a) a "diagnostic …
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