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). To achieve more and better employment (where “better” depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … interact, how unemployment is caused, and how employment can be improved. At the same time, drawing on practical experience …
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We study work effort with its various determinants such as the educational level of the worker, the minimum or start-up salary as well as the initial endowment of the worker. By means of optimization we find that optimal work effort depends directly on the initial income available to the worker,...
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This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro-simulations of income distribution, which is the most...
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time, the difference in returns to higher education explains another 20% of the income differences between Chile and … earlier estimation. Even though this significative reduction the reasons to explain the gap would remain identical than …
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Investment in education is of great importance for the competitiveness of the German economy. In particular, early … childhood education programs promise high returns - because children can benefit from them even years later and find it easier … to learn new skills. These are the results of research in the field of the economics of education in recent years, at …
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dramatically. The public investment program "Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung"(Future Education and Care) has made a significant …
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returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …
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At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point averages falls by half between the students’ freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to reduce racial differences. However, this convergence...
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Higher educational institution (HEI) is a one of an organisation in a service industry field. It likes any other organisations are realising that the mission of the university is to provide a high quality environment that meets the requirements of users in an efficient and effectively. Basically...
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This study addresses the phenomenon of permanence for long years of low performance (urban) schools, measured by SIMCE. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student ?s mobility rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of...
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