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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2012
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666513
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517433
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118533
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119232
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Changing Income Inequality and Panel Income Changes
Duval-Hernandez, Robert - 2015
of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among … panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023011
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349947
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Top earners : cross-country facts
Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017
We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697392
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century : A Critique of Thomas Piketty's Political Economy
Potter, Michael J - 2015
, especially if taxes and income support are included, in many countries in the developing world and the US. A focus on inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030653
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Moving Toward Food Democracy : Better Food, New Farmers, and the Myth of Feeding the World
Hamilton, Neil D. - 2015
Hamilton’s essay begins with a reflection on food and society. He writes of the effect of modernization and industry on the relationship America has with food. What once was a centerpiece of our economic independence, family life, and health is now merely an afterthought. Quality and trust in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176061
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The interaction between health, human capital and economic growth : empirical evidence
Soukiazis, Elias; Cravo, Túlio - In: Perspectives on integration and globalisation, (pp. 169-194). 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831988