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The formation of AI capital in higher education : enhancing students’ academic performance and employment rates

Drydakis, Nick - 2025

The study evaluates the effectiveness of a 12-week AI module delivered to non-STEM university students in England, aimed at building students' AI Capital, encompassing AI-related knowledge, skills, and capabilities. An integral part of the process involved the development and validation of the...

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The formation of AI capital in higher education : enhancing students' academic performance and employment rates

Drydakis, Nick - 2025

The study evaluates the effectiveness of a 12-week AI module delivered to non-STEM university students in England, aimed at building students' AI Capital. An integral part of the process involved the development and validation of the AI Capital of Students scale, used to measure AI Capital...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015457560

Human Capital Investment Under Exit Options : Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Chand, Satish - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … argue with theory and a range of nonexperimental falsification tests that exit by skilled workers was a necessary causal …

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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007

Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...

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Measuring Education Inequality : Gini Coefficients of Education

Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan; Fan, Xibo - 2014

Equal access to education is a basic human right. But in many countries gaps in education between various groups are staggering. An education Gini index - a new indicator for the distribution of human capital and welfare - facilitates comparison of education inequality across countries and over...

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Migration, child education, human capital accumulation, and a brain dilution tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

I study the effect of educational policy in the host economy on human capital accumulation and growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing additional free educational services for immigrant children can increase the...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Whitaker, Stephan - 2020

Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY), this article examines the influence of a region’s industrial composition on the educational attainment of children raised by parents who do not have college degrees. The NLSY’s geo-coded panel allows for precise measurements of the...

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Can education save Europe from high unemployment?

Walter, Nicole (contributor); Xie, Runli (contributor) - 2008

Empirical observations show that education helps to protect against labor market risks. This is twofold: The higher educated face a higher expected wage income and a lower probability of being unemployed. Although this relationship has been analyzed in the literature broadly, several questions...

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