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strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
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Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …
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This work studies the relationship between education and labor market performance, first by making a review of the … literature on the subject, and then by examining certain stylized facts. For the empirical evaluation, education is analysed …. Therefore, education is here discussed as an input, and labor market results, as an output. …
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This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...
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Dass Arbeitsmarkt-Pooling einer der Vorteile von Ballungsräumen ist, ist zwar empirisch belegt, theoretisch jedoch nur gering fundiert. Der Beitrag stellt ein Modell der Humankapitalbildung in einem imperfekten kompetitiven gepoolten Arbeitsmarkt mit heterogenen Arbeitskräften und Unternehmen...
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The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school …, human capital accumulation and social mobility. In the vocational education and training system, resources continue to be … market needs requires active participation of social partners, students and education institutions. The rapid expansion of …
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There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on cross-sectional data, providing information at just...
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higher education for individuals in Egypt in 2010. The results suggested that these externalities are negative and exist only … increase in governorate average higher education is associated with a 68% decrease in females’ hourly wage. This could be … explained by the fact that education degrees are simply used as a device to signal higher ability without raising productivity …
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has been found in some studies. The incidence and the impact of training depend on the national education and training …
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Operational Programme Digital Poland - "Priority axis III: Digital competences of the society" focuses on raising digital activity in order to allow fully use possibilities of high-speed Internet and new public e-services. It comprises four actions including Training activities for development...
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