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Education and development : measuring the social benefits
McMahon, Walter W. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001483544
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Generating economic growth : an analytical survey
Thompson, Maria - In: The open economics journal 1 (2008), pp. 25-36
The theoretical richness and variety of the new growth literature can make it difficult to capture the essence of growth models. With this paper, we wish to provide one possible integrating view of the nature of the growth generating processes. Revisiting the models that constitute the core of...
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Education and Investment in Human Capital
Weisbrod, Burton A. - 2011
only expenditures on equipment but also on people. Investment in people makes it possible to take advantage of technical … progress as well as to continue that progress. Improvements in health make investment in education more rewarding by extending … life expectancy. Investment in education expands and extends knowledge, leading to advances which raise productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181734
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A tangled tale of training and talent : PhDs in institutional asset management
Chaudhuri, Ranadeb; Ivković, Zoran; Pollet, Joshua M.; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 66 (2020) 12, pp. 5623-5647
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Investment in training and skills
Tahir, Imran - 2023
The UK has seen a significant decline in investment in adult education and training. This chapter analyses how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414302
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The design of the university system
De Fraja, Gianni; Valbonesi, Paola - 2009
This paper compares the organisation of the university sector under private provision with the structure which would be chosen by a welfare maximising government. It studies a general equilibrium model where universities carry out research and teach students. To attend university and earn higher...
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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland
Steiner, Viktor; Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444602
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Return to schooling for public and private sector higher education institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan
Khan, Aamir; Khan, Himayatullah - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 10 (2020) 4, pp. 125-131
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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland
Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428322
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Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment
Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2014
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...
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