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dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with … the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of vocational-to-general education tends to be higher in middle …-income countries. We explore an analytical approach to open up fresh insights into the composition of secondary education and prove the …
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education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …
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This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …
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This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii … construct a novel data base that includes information on education reforms for thirty-one countries spanning four decades … education reduces the number of emigrants by almost 10%. Increasing the length of compulsory education shifts educational …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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this matter, to train individuals able to keep balance between national values and globalized truth is education. Gaining … education. The study of Azerbaijan-Turkey Private High Schools (ATPHS) that have an important place in national educational … innovations, as a sincere individual who can identify the qualities of the effects of education system in defending the rights of …
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expanding early childhood education programs, changing the school calendar, and online learning …
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to the pre-university education, as compared to the traditional education. The parents have the legal right to choose the … traditional education. The perceived quality of the existing educational alternatives, from the parents point of view, is high …, and that's why this alternatives are increasingly requested by the well-informed parents (mostly with a higher education …
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Indonesia has made significant progress in increasing access to education over the last decade. Despite these … impressive trends, many children do not continue their education beyond the primary and junior secondary level. While a number of … factors influence a household's schooling decision, the direct and indirect costs of education are important particularly for …
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improve: the quality, and not just the quantity, of education and health care; outcomes for disadvantaged groups; and lifelong …
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