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initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … 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 …
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model … inference to estimate the model parameters, and show that wealth inequality causes both placement into lower-paying jobs as well …
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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 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 research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census …
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, through education especially at higher levels, will allow human capital to evolve dynamically and increase long-run growth in … Nigeria. This tendency engenders multiplier effects in stimulating sustainable development given that education-driven growth … growth. Therefore, investments in education have been identified as a vital channel for building human capital and achieving …
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