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of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … are the major reasons that women migrate at a younger age. When higher education expansion increased women's chance of …
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of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … are the major reasons that women migrate at a younger age. When higher education expansion increased women's chance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003780
infrastructure or other attributes that affect the returns to education create spatial differentiation in educational lending and … consequently, in educational attainment. Although migration options can increase the returns to education, they can also choke off … the informal finance on which poorer rural households depend for long-term, lumpy investments like children's education …
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Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants' training before they migrate — linking skill creation and skill...
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In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an increasing number of young people, most of them being gifted, very talented students and high-skilled workforce, with multiple competences . These young people are pro-active and...
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provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should …
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This study examines how rising interprovincial migration with diverse education backgrounds affects new human capital … education, we identify that gross outflow migration of those with higher and lower schooling qualifications respectively …
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reside in urban areas and in large cities, and the returns to education are significantly higher in urban areas relative to … returns to education in urban areas are at least comparable to the magnitude of private returns. Rural areas are the major …. Relaxing the hukou restriction, increasing education levels of rural residents, providing training for rural-urban migrants …
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This paper provides evidence on the long run relationship between European settlers presence and education levels in … massive funds allocated to the <p> education sector post-war; (2) the role of the market via migration; (3) social interaction … effects whereby natives progressively adopted education and fertility norms of the settlers. …
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constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school … and how much to invest in their child's education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 …
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