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management and adoption of good practices in municipal education, which influence the decisions and behavior of managers in …
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management and adoption of good practices in municipal education, which influence the decisions and behavior of managers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510819
This paper uses parametric and semiparametric techniques to examine educational inequality by geographical areas in Chile. The differences in achievement are also investigated across school types administration (public, private subsidized and private fee
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
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reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509625
reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975213
There is important evidence of a recent upsurge of so-called residual inequality, i.e. wage inequality that cannot be explained by workers? observable attributes, such as schooling. The main purpose of this article is to review the intuitions and results of some of the main theoretical models...
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Earnings equations for occupied persons in the state of Minas Gerais are estimated using data from the 2000 Demographic Census of Brazil. Such equations allow us to evaluate the effect of age, gender, schooling, color (race), position in the occupation, weekly working time and other factors on...
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decades has provided a lot of empirical evidences on the incidence of over and under-education across developed countries in … different periods, and returns on ORU (over-education, required education, and under-education). A recent wave of empirical … controlling for unobserved workers heterogeneity? (iii) Is over-education a deliberate investment decision of workers in their …
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