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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"

Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015

, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …

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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe

Colombelli, Alessandra; Foddi, Marta; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...

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Educational Expansion in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts : Human Capital Formation or Structural Reinforcement?

Field, Alexander J. - 2009

Economists and educational historians have put forward two major kinds of explanations for the coincidence between the industrial revolution and the development of mass public schooling in the United States. Industrial change, some maintain, created a demand for technicians, managers, skilled...

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Naturalisation and Investments in Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

von Haaren, Friederike - 2016

This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...

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Human Capital Spending, Inequality, and Growth in Middle-Income Asia

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. - 2018

Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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Chapter 8. Student Loans and Repayment : Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Lochner, L.; Monge-Naranjo, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 397-478). 2016

Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the USA, student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent...

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