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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...
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Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich?
Rozada, Martín González; Menéndez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2002
families. Almost 90 percent of the students in tuition-free public universities have higher than median per capita family … income and almost 50 percent attended tuition-financed private high schools. We compare these students with those who attend … non tuition-free private colleges. Although students in private universities seem to have higher per capita family income …
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The impact of education investment on Sri Lankan economic growth
Ganegodage, K. Renuka; Rambaldi, Alicia N. - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1491-1502
We evaluate the contribution of investment on education to Sri Lanka’s economic growth during the period 1959–2008. Physical capital, economic policy changes and the ethnic war are also evaluated due to their substantial importance. This study uses a framework encompassing both the...
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Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich?
Rozada, Martín González; Menéndez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2002
families. Almost 90 percent of the students in tuition-free public universities have higher than median per capita family … income and almost 50 percent attended tuition-financed private high schools. We compare these students with those who attend … non tuition-free private colleges. Although students in private universities seem to have higher per capita family income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150207
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Моделиране на възвращаемостта от образование и реализация на притежателите на докторски степени на пазара на труда в България...
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Panayotova, Nataliya; Ganev, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this study we present the theoretical framework of the so called Mincerian equations used for modelling returns to education. Then, we construct a conceptual framework which allows us to answer the question “What happens to doctoral degree holders in the labour market?”. We analyse data...
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Using Wages to Infer School Quality
Speakman, Robert; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
This chapter examines the literature that attempts to measure the relationship between labor earnings and the average quality of a state's elementary and secondary schools where school quality is approximated by statewide average characteristics like the teacher-pupil ratio. We present evidence...
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Education and wage inequality in Europe
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2620-2628
In this paper we apply a quantile regression (QR) approach to the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in eight European countries. Our results corroborate the positive relation between wage increase and education and it holds true across the...
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EARNINGS BENEFIT OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL LEVEL VERSUS THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION
KISS, JUDIT T. - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 5 (2010) 2, pp. 89-91
The number of students of higher education rose significantly in Hungary in the nineties. Many people forecast the …
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Education's role in China's structural transformation
Lee, Soohyung; Malin, Benjamin A. - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 148-166
We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural sectors and measure the portion of China's recent growth attributable to this channel. Using detailed micro-level data and an empirical model that allows for the endogenous selection...
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Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings of male dropouts, utilizing the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP). These unique data contain...
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