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Why have 94% of LDCs not escaped poverty during the last four decades? This paper analyses the motivation behind the UN decision to establish the LDC category in 1971. The reviewed literature highlights the conflicting interests of the actors involved. It provides a historical account of the...
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power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … when all variables compete it is only our backward induction measure (Hit15) that weakly predicts graduation in four years …
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Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...
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typical age of graduation from compulsory school (age 16) and highschool (age 19) have persistent, negative effects on males … how labor market conditions at age of graduation have differential effects for low- and high-ability males. As one would …
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Since its inception in Bangladesh in 2002, the Graduation Approach has received much attention, including in mainstream … media outlets. Beyond this positive media acclaim, momentum has gathered behind graduation as an important social policy … instrument. There has been a proliferation in the implementation of new graduation-inspired programmes. …
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We use 292 household surveys from 18 Latin American countries to document patterns in secondary school graduation rates … over the period 1990-2010. We find that enrollment and graduation rates increased during that period while dropout rates … this progress, graduation rates are still generally low, there still persist remarkable gaps in educational outcomes in …
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This paper analyses the returns to education of specific occupations in Canada. The purpose is to scrutinize whether and in how far academic and vocational education do differ in monetary benefits regarding individual returns. Therefore, two different methodologies of calculation are used to...
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Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an internal rate of return (IRR) of 14.2% for gross earnings,...
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Colombian labor market values a college graduate at the time of graduation the same as a secondary school graduate with five … institutions and students' skills and earnings, and between on-time graduation and earnings. High-quality higher education …
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This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never...
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