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participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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score matching estimates indicate that the program is successful in increasing school enrollment, schooling attainment and …
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The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
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of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …
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of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …
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This paper examines the determinants of participation in, and the amount of time spent on, public and private adult … education and training in Canada. Using the master file data from the 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey, we estimate … probit models of adult education and training (hereafter just “training”) incidence and hurdle models of total time spent in …
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public and private funding. Participation in adult training is low too and, as elsewhere, seems to be concentrated among …An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … sur le juste équilibre entre financements publics et privés. Du côté de la formation des adules, les taux de participation …
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unemployment rates, sharp declines in the employed share of U.S. adults, extremely high youth unemployment, high wage inequality … effectively with skill mismatches, wage inequality, declines in manufacturing employment, and high youth unemployment, why has the … Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD 2009) review of youth employment, have recommended expanding apprenticeship training …
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