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explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … training in the United States. We find evidence indicating that individuals who are more risk tolerant benefit more from … entrepreneurship training than less risk tolerant individuals. We find some limited evidence that individuals who have a preference for …
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. Also, until 2008 there was no system of education and training sessions of the local population. Farmers were not educated … of education and training could create conditions for providing better quality services, which will bring bigger effects …
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Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries …, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between individual educational attainment and …
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to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …
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investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
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will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes; (iii) reforming labor market institutions to … training programs. …
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Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of human capital on welfare dynamics in Canada using data from the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP). SSP offered a time-limited earnings supplement to a randomly assigned group of new welfare applicants who remained on welfare for one year and, in the...
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The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...
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