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' skills and most labor outcomes but some evidence of a effect on labor income. We also find evidence of heterogeneous effects …
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Workforce development in the US today is spread across higher education institutions (primarily public 2-year and for-profit colleges), labor market institutions and workplaces, with public funding from a range of sources. But outcomes for students and workers are weaker than they could be,...
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Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …
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provision of vocationally relevant subjects, vocationally relevant skills and the development of vocationally relevant attitudes …, (3) whereas most graduate employers used to be concerned with the vocationally relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes …
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Workforce development financing has changed significantly over the last 25 years. In 2008, federal funding for the traditional workforce development system was 83 percent lower in real terms than it had been in 1980. As the federal system plays a smaller role in workforce development financing,...
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student learning. Many teachers in resource-poor environments have limited knowledge, skills, or motivation. Some impact …
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and weekly earnings, employment, unemployment and full-time work. The study finds that university degrees provide …
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