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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …
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This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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This study estimates a cost function for higher education in Australian universities using pooled series of cross … resulting cost function is used to derive estimates of the overall cost of providing higher education to overseas students. …
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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …
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for public subsidy on education and then empirically with the help of conventional unbalanced panel data models. The … analysis questions the desirability of the public subsidy policy on education in improving intertemporal social welfare in a …
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-sector, specific factor general equilibrium framework with endogenous skill formation and provision for public subsidy on education …
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the relationship between wage inequality and public spending on education is not necessarily unambiguous. A theoretical …. This finding questions the desirability of providing subsidy on education at least from the perspective of reduction in …
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The paper is purported to analyze the impact of skill formation on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality using a few variants of the HOS-type framework. It shows that the effect of skill formation on the wage inequality depends crucially upon the technologies of production of the economy and...
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, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in … education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy …
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In the public discourse, education is usually considered as the main vehicle for the promotion of social equality and … social mobility. The paper surveys the existing literature and concludes that the relationship between education and … inequality in Greece is strong. Inequities are evident at all levels of the education system; especially as regards access to the …
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