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determined by ability, access to higher education, and technology, I find the effect of different educational aid schemes … demand for higher education of each ability/human capital group, the labor shares of each group, and the share of resources …
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inflows as the mechanism for mitigating school user fees constraining education access in recipient countries …
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heterogeneous correlations of the business cycle with different age, education, and ethnic groups by gender in a developing country …
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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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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 …
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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP); and (b) the Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA). The two …
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Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education … also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil and …
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Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education … also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261687
Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing...
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