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Elasticity of substitution and disaggregation of labor by skill level : empirical measurement using global database
Das, Gouranga Gopal - In: Applied econometrics and international development 3 (2003) 1, pp. 81-102
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Elasticity of Substitution and Disaggregation of Labor by Skill Level : Empirical Measurement Using a Global Database
Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2008
The 45 region - 50 commodity - 5 primary factor version of the Global Trade Analysis Project's [GTAP] database provides us with the splits of total labor payments into skilled and unskilled labor-presupposing substitution possibilities between them. Given the skilled labor payment shares of the...
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well … been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
determinant of international differences in student performance. Results are supported by fixed-effects estimation that uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462634
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Why standard measures of human capital are misleading
Hanushek, Eric Alan - In: Han gug gae bal yeon gu 37 (2015) 2, pp. 23-40
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. Observed country variations in teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005432
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040536
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For long-term economic development, only skills matter : Economic growth determines a nation’s long-term economic well-being and crucially depends on skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2017
Politicians typically focus on short-term economic issues; but, a nation’s long-term economic well-being is directly linked to its rate of economic growth. In turn, its growth rate is directly linked to the economically relevant skills of its population. Until recently, however, economists...
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: Economics letters 153 (2017), pp. 15-19
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