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hit hardest by the crisis. However, analyses of skill formation reform, particularly vocational education and training … unemployment and similar legacies of statist VET. Approach: We investigate VET reforms brought underway in Greece and Italy during … interviews in Greece and Italy in 2019. Results: We find that both countries attempted to strengthen the role of apprenticeship …
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, it focuses on distinct regions in three countries: Italy, Spain, and Germany. Through a combination of desk research and …
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This chapter considers the literature on government-sponsored vocational training for adults, with a particular substantive focus on training provided via active labor market programs and a particular geographic focus on Western Europe and North America. We begin with a discussion of the...
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Short-term education and skills training programs are a popular way to meet the needs of unemployed, out …
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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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