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Education as a key in career building
Hitka, Miloš; Štarchoň, Peter; Lorincová, Silvia; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 4, pp. 1065-1083
Human resources in companies are gaining increasingly more strategic meaning by its ability to influence reaching company goals. The task of a manager is to understand the fact that every employee is different, has different needs, goals, and ambitions, is motivated by something else in every...
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EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN UZBEKISTAN
OCHILOV, AKRAM - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 12 (2012) 3, pp. 21-33
Education is admitted to be one of the fundamental determinants of social and economic progress of any nation. In … particular, the quantity and quality of education may have significant effect on economic growth. The research attempted to … determine the existence of correlation between quantity/quality of education and the economic growth in Uzbekistan. Regression …
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MAIN ASPECTS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL SERVICES PRODUCTIVITY WITH FOCUS TO EDUCATION
Alexandru, Jivan; Janeta, Weisz - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 214-218
Part of a larger research, this paper aims to point out several key elements of the productivity in the field of services, with application to the intellect-intensive ones: the main concern is for educational services.Methodologically, the paper starts with the framing in the context of the...
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Bridging the Discontinuity in Adolescent Literacy? Mixed Evidence from a Middle Grades Intervention
Dougherty, Shaun M. - In: Education Finance and Policy 10 (2015) 2, pp. 157-192
Strong literacy skills are crucial to ensuring an individual's future educational and economic success. Existing …
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Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Kose, Esra; Kuka, Elira; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2016
While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human capital accumulation by exploiting plausibly exogenous...
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American … of dramatic economic change between the old country and the new, it focuses on how this affected differences between … European and American Jewish practices during the first half of the twentieth century. Equally dramatic upward economic …
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Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2016
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose a multi-period frictionless matching model where educational and marriage decisions are...
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296723
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Women's enfranchisement and children's education : the long-run impact of the U.S. suffrage movement
Kose, Esra; Kuka, Elira; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2016
While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human capital accumulation by exploiting plausibly exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526692