La relación entre la inversión en educación y el crecimiento económico ha suscitado el interés de los economistas desde hace décadas. La contabilidad de crecimiento y los modelos, tanto neoclásicos como endógenos, han tratado de explicar y cuantificar la influencia directa del capital...

There is a well established theoretical literature about the private individual investment in education decision, based upon the traditional neoclassical literature, dating back to Becker. This framework also addresses the issue of the employer’s investment in training, although it is less...

El papel de la ayuda al desarrollo en el crecimiento de las economías latinoamericanas ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios, provenientes en muchos casos de investigadores del Banco Mundial, así en los trabajos de P. Boone (1994), P Mosley (1995), Hadji-Michael et al (1995), Feizioglu et al...

En esta comunicación queremos mostrar la evolución del enseñanza superior en Portugal, sea en números sea en el nivel de equidad. Para tal, vamos a utilizar las estadísticas nacionales y vamos a contrastar los dados logrados en dos cuestionarios representativos del ámbito nacional...

Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of economic privilege in the determination of school...

The contribution of universities to society is due to both supply and demand side effects, the latter being associated with the injection of demand as a result of the activities these institutions carry out. This paper focuses on the impact of the demand side by designing a methodology based on...

The lack of formal education and competences of the Portuguese workers is one of the biggest problems of the country. This lack is not shrinking at the wanted speed and the young generations still lag far behind the ones in other OCDE countries. This paper studies the intergenerational...

Previous studies have shown that there is a positive relationship between environmental education and pro-environmental behaviors and attitudes. The aim of this study is to describe an empirical approach to measuring aspects of environmental science literacy through using data from OECD PISA...

En el presente estudio se analiza el comportamiento de la demanda laboral de profesionales en Cali en el año 2009, utilizando la información de una encuesta desarrollada por la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali y la Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, en donde se les preguntó a los jefes...

The present study tries to provide an alternative approach to the analysis of universities, by grouping Spanish public universities for the academic year 2006, into clusters that are statistically similar across all criteria, without making assumptions about the relative importance of each...