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In educating students national public school systems use different methods of grouping students by ability across schools. We consider four different school systems of student allocation at different stages of schooling and their educational implications. Our two-period model suggests that both...
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In the era of technological change, consumers face an environment increasingly complex, leading to significant challenges regarding buying and consuming choices and consumer protection. The most important and most influential technological changes in terms of the impact on the consumer, are...
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education, which lowers future wages, and the present value of foregone wages decreases with age. Consumption is hump shaped …
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This paper examines optimal investment in children's schooling using a two-period model. Children are assumed to contribute in an economic sense through child labour when they are young and through old-age security as adults. Parents therefore face a trade-off between current and future returns...
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decisive set of persons can impose compulsory education on all. We find conditions under which educated persons will want to … impose compulsory education, and conditions under which uneducated persons would oppose compulsory education even if it was …
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, education? We provide the following explanation. Say that the economy consists of several different sectors, and that agents are … uncertain which of these sectors they are best fit for. Furthermore we assume that education improves an agent's estimate of his … abilities. In that case education may be of social gain since it may improve the allocational efficiency of the economy. …
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Education and training help to build human capacity for both men and women. It is a key priority area for poverty … studying, everywhere in the world the existing education system is being redefined and educational programs that have to …
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existing education system is being redefined, and educational programs that have to closely relate to practice are being … education will be slowly substituted with some other forms of education, in which learning from homes and offices with the help … of computers, were true. Interactive education should provide a completely new dimension of gaining knowledge making …
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as well as international literature. A distinction is thereby made between the role and impact of the education system … that early-year education and ALMP measures are typically targeted at differently aged young people. Apart from young …
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the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in their selection …
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