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Memories and Social Change : Creative Knowledge Society versus Global Crisis

Bulz, Nicolae - 2022

This study is focused on (re)searching an answer to the question: * WHY DOES NOT THE RATIO POVERTY/WELFARE WORK as a dynamically pro-market reform indicator, into the contemporary MARKET and ECONOMY? A two stage answering-approach (as below # and ## paragraphs show) is proposed: # If (a) [simple...

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Inquiry on the Global (Post) Crisis Versus Humankind Wisdom as a Turning Point : Does the Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity Triad Matter?

Bulz, Nicolae; Stapleton, Larry; Lewoc, Jozef B.; … - 2013

The humankind wisdom is supposed to be a related and open-deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to generosity, creativity, solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, is distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner...

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Academic Exchange 'Global Literacy' and U.S. Higher Education

Schukoske, Jane E. - 2009

Since the end of World War I, systematic efforts in the USA to promote academic exchange have steadily increased. The resulting exchanges have changed perspectives of the participants in which they perform. In view of the rapid expansion of higher education worldwide, information and...

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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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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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Marital Sorting and Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence

Tolstova, Vera - 2021

In a real economy, decisions on investments in child human capital of children are made by families rather than by atomistic parents as is typically assumed in the literature. This paper incorporates family formation into an otherwise standard dynastic framework with human capital accumulation....

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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities

Murat, Marina; Bonacini, Luca - 2020

School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...

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Human capital and income inequality

Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - 2018

This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment, is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad range of countries between 1980 and 2015, show that a more equal distribution of education contributes...

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Does early educational tracking contribute to gender gaps in test achievement? : a cross-country assessment

Lorenz, Theresa; Schneebaum, Alyssa - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 5-36

On average, boys score higher on math achievement tests and girls score higher in reading; these gaps increase between primary and secondary school. Using PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS data, we investigate the role of early educational tracking (sorting students into different types of secondary...

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What drives youth's intention to migrate abroad? : evidence from international survey data

Milasi, Santo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/12, pp. 1-30

Despite the bulk of international migrants being youth, little is known about the factors driving young people … youth to migrate abroad as well as the probability that they turn this aspiration into a more concrete plan over the … and employed youth. Results also show that material deprivation may represent a significant push factor behind youth …

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