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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421216
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Does learning matter for wages in Korea? : international comparison of wage returns to adult education and training
Park, Yoonsoo - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 2, pp. 29-44
This study compares the wage equation in Korea to those in other countries, focusing on the wage returns to adult education and training (AET) participation. It is found that the wage compensation structure in Korea is associated mainly with job characteristics such as tenure and workplace size...
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Educational Qualification, Work Status and Entrepreneurship in Italy : An Exploratory Analysis
Sabatini, Fabio - 2007
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in … emerging from the empirical evidence are the surprisingly low level of educational qualification exhibited by employers and the … tendency of workers holding higher levels of educational qualification not to choose to undertake an entrepreneurial activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731696
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Educational Qualification, Work Status and Entrepreneurship in Italy : An Exploratory Analysis
Sabatini, Fabio - 2007
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in … emerging from the empirical evidence are the surprisingly low level of educational qualification exhibited by employers and the … tendency of workers holding higher levels of educational qualification not to chose to undertake an entrepreneurial activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058423
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The skill balancing act : determinants of and returns to balanced skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129709
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815729
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152551
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Skills for the 21st century : findings and policy lessons from the OECD survey of adult skills
Martin, John P. - 2018
The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This paper argues that the findings and policy lessons from the project to date justify the high hopes which were placed in PIAAC when detailed planning for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781341
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Skilled or educated? : educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our identification strategy exploits differential exposure to educational reforms across birth cohorts and countries. We find that education has the strongest earnings effect. A one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776249
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Education, Skill Training, and Lifelong Learning in the Era of Technological Revolution
Park, Cyn-Young; Kim, Jinyoung - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098548