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Будущее Университетов (Future of Universities)
Klyachko, Tatiana - 2015
This paper discusses the future of universities: trends that are increasingly drawing attention, and those who have yet to appear, without getting into the field of view of the majority of researchers in higher education. Debate on the future of the university is due to the emergence of new...
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To Be or Not Be An International University?
Nagi, Kuldeep - 2019
For most of the last century, majority of the universities in USA catered to the local needs and the economy. In the beginning of the 20th Century few universities in the USA started to expand to attract students across the borders and the region and gradually acquired national and international...
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The new wave? : the role of human capital and STEM skills in technology adoption in the UK
Draca, Mirko; Nathan, Max; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; … - 2024
1990s and early 2000s. At the area-level we see the emergence of a distinct STEM-biased adoption effect for the second wave …-standard deviation increase in the baseline share of STEM workers in areas is associated with around 0.3 of a standard deviation higher … range of skills. In turn, this STEM-biased adoption pattern has encouraged the concentration of these technologies, leading …
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Why Do Schooling and Experience Affect Workers’ Productivity on the Job So Differently Across Countries?
Breton, Theodore R. - 2021
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson [2001] present evidence that colonies with inclusive and extractive institutions have grown at different rates since colonial times. I examine whether their findings are consistent with the estimated effects of schooling and experience on earnings over workers’...
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International Differences in the Effect of Skills on Job Mobility : A Schumpeterian Perspective
Stijepic, Damir - 2020
Making use of an international survey that directly assess the cognitive skills of the adult population, I document systematic differences in the effect of skills on job mobility across the 37 countries in the sample. While economic growth is associated with relatively higher job mobility among...
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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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The Effect of a Specialized versus a General Upper Secondary School Curriculum on Students’ Performance and Inequality. A Difference-in-Differences Cross Country Country Comparison...
Leme, Afonso - 2016
Countries differ in their upper secondary school systems in a way that some require their students to choose a specialization from a set of areas - typically natural sciences, economic sciences, humanities or arts - and follow that specialization for the course of their upper secondary education...
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Gender gaps in education : the long view
Evans, David K.; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in...
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Education : War and Peace
Tooley, James; Longfield, David - 2021
Low-cost private schools are ubiquitous across the developing world. This book explores their nature and extent in some of the world’s most difficult places: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan. The accepted wisdom of international agencies on education in conflict-affected states...
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School Choice around the World and the Lessons We Can Learn
Counihan, Christopher J.; Cowen, Nick; DeAngelis, Corey; … - 2021
Education reforms that allow new educational providers to supply schooling into a state system can improve parental satisfaction and raise learning outcomes through consumer choice. Choice provides children with schooling that matches their interests. A child engaged in school is more likely to...
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