unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced … data linked with administrative data, we show that numeracy skills are strongly related to unemployment duration, while at … longer unemployment duration of workers below median age (33) in our sample, even after including a rich set of controls. We …

with two education levels in which workers decide ex-ante on their skill formation, it is shown that employment protection … rent created by skill formation. Furthermore, it will be shown that high-skilled workers face shorter unemployment duration …

This paper investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection …, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …

rapport à la frontière technologique. Outre les effets additifs de l’éducation et des régulations sur les marchés des biens et …’en l’absence de concurrence suffisante, les entreprises sont peu incitées à générer de nouvelles rentes via l … niveau d’éducation tertiaire et des rigidités sur la croissance de la PGF traduit à la fois une influence directe et un effet …

Education constitutes one of the fundamental axes of the Cuban socialist development project and one of the means of … Cuba are universalism, exemption from payment and the public character of education. Their application has made it possible …

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

while education can be an escalator out of social disadvantage — leading to better job prospects for youths facing greater … significant minority of students in several OECD countries do not even complete compulsory education; students' test scores in … lower secondary education are strongly shaped by family characteristics; and the expansion of university education has most …

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogota (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Accion, FA); both …