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The relative economic importance of academic, psychological and behavioural attributes developed on childhood
Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745937
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Does investment in education and health impact youth employment outcomes? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074789
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Does investment in education and health impact youth employment outcomes? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500475
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The effect of choice options in training curricula on the demand for and supply of apprentices
Jansen, Anika; Grip, Andries de; Kriechel, Ben - In: Economics of education review 57 (2017), pp. 52-65
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Trading off static efficiency and dynamic incentives in apprenticeship relations
Melgare, Pedro - In: Brazilian review of econometrics : BRE ; the review of … 41 (2021) 1, pp. 125-150
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382025
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The Quality of Apprenticeship Training
Smits, W. - In: Education Economics 14 (2006) 3, pp. 329-344
This paper examines the relationship between a firm's training motives and the quality of apprenticeship training. Data on training quality and training motives are obtained by interviewing former apprentices. The paper employs a novel measure for training quality based on subjective survey data...
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Apprenticeship training: for investment or substitution?
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes‐Gellner, Uschi - In: International Journal of Manpower 31 (2010) 5, pp. 545-562
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to derive an empirical method to identify different types of training strategies of companies based on publicly available company data. Design/methodology/approach – Using a ten‐year panel, the within‐firm retention rate, defined as the average...
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Valuable experience: How internships affect university graduates' income
Bolli, Thomas; Caves, Katherine; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther - 2019
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111094
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Workplace literacy requirements and unskilled employment in East- Central and Western Europe : evidence from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)
Köllő, János (contributor) - 2006
Primary degree holders have extraordinarily low employment rates in Central and East European (CEE) countries, a bias that largely contributes to their low levels of aggregate employment. The paper looks at the possible role for skills mismatch in explaining this failure. The analysis is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435357
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America's human capital paradox
Kochan, Thomas A. - 2012
It is widely recognized that human capital is essential to sustaining a competitive economy at high and rising living standards. Yet acceptance of persistent high unemployment, stagnant wages, and other indicators of declining job quality suggests that policymakers and employers undervalue human...
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