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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653092
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Enrolment Trends in Full-Time Undergraduate Tertiary Education Studies in Slovenia
Skrbinjek, Vesna; Lesjak, Dusan - International School for Social and Business Studies, …
This paper aims to explore enrolment trends focusing on full-time undergraduate tertiary education studies (TE) in …-time undergraduate TE studies have grown extensively. The current situation raises questions primarily related to future enrolment trends …
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An equity perspective on access to, enrolment in and finance of tertiary education
Asplund, Rita; Adbelkarim, Oussama Ben; Skalli, Ali - In: Education Economics 16 (2008) 3, pp. 261-274
Failure to achieve equitable access to university studies has contributed to turning the focus to the funding of higher education systems. This paper aims to review critically the literature assessing the effectiveness of existing financing schemes and changes in them as a means for reducing the...
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The Wage Premium on Tertiary Education: New Estimates for 21 OECD Countries
Strauss, Hubert; Maisonneuve, Christine de la - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This paper presents cross-section estimates of gross hourly wage premia on tertiary education. They are based on a unified framework for 21 OECD countries from the 1990s to the early 2000s and use international household surveys to maximise international comparability. The results of the...
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The puzzling fall in the wage skill premium in Spain
Hidalgo-Pérez, Manuel; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; … - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2014
In contrast to most EU countries and other developed economies, the Wage Skill Premium (WSP) has been steadily falling over the past decades in Spain. The main purpose of this work is to document and explain the fall in the WSP in Spain over the past two decades using Social Security data. Our...
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm-Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 485-497
This paper uses firm-level panel data of on-the-job training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this …
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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THE RETURN TO COLLEGE EDUCATION
Adamson, Bill; Hooda, Ritu - Economics Department, South Dakota State University - 2008
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Firm Size, Technical Change And Wages In The Pork Sector, 1990 -2005
Yu, Li; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008
Economists have long puzzled over the fact that large firms pay higher wages than small firms, even after controlling … matching process may explain differences in wages across farms. The study relies on four surveys of employees on hog farms … advanced hog farms, the positive relationships between wages and both farm size and technology adoption remain large and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005437603
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Raising Education Outcomes in Spain
Fuentes, Andrés - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
Impressive progress has been made in raising participation in early childhood education as well as tertiary educational attainment over the past 30 years. However, the inflow of poorly educated youth into the labour market is unusually heavy for a high-income country, largely on account of high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045853