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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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Can the university save Europe?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009561436
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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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Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the …
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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers
Zimmermann, Markus - 2019
This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...
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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
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The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
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The academic progress of Hispanic immigrants
Hull, Marie - 2015
Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show little change in their relative position over the same time frame. Distinguishing Hispanic students...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment
Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...
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