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GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS, EDUCATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING: ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN COMPARISON WITH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 2000-2007
Guisan, M.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 9 (2009) 1
Accounting Index and Government Effectiveness Index, and 3) Educational indicators, including public education expenditure per … of indicators are highly correlated in several ways, due to the important positive effects of education on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012230
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Estimating the returns to education using the newest current population survey education questions
Jaeger, David A. - 2002
This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow … imputed "highest grade completed" is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411498
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Effects of welfare reform on women's voting participation
Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - 2016
operate through employment, education, and income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453439
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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education … quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States … years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns …
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State merit aid programs and youth labor market attachment
Frisvold, David E.; Pitts, Melinda - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868896
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State merit aid programs and youth labor market attachment
Frisvold, David E.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874499
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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009
rules in the 1920s. -- Education ; migrations ; economic history ; economic development research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801059
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Editor’s Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 11 (2005) Fall, pp. 1-2
This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower information and communications technology investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518946
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Editor’s Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 1-2
This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518979
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Do toll-free highways foster firm formation and employment growth? : results from a quasi-natural experiment
Audretsch, David B.; Dohse, Dirk; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2017
The paper studies the impact of a switch from free to charged highway provision on firm numbers and private sector employment in a cross-section of Portuguese municipalities. It exploits the fact that highway tolls in Portugal were unexpectedly raised in reaction to the financial crisis to...
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