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L'économie de l'éducation fait-elle des progrès? Une perspective d'histoire de la pensée économique
De Meulemeester, Jean Luc - In: Brussels Economic Review 50 (2007) 1, pp. 89-111
In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relative to education and … education and the economy were already present at the end of the 18th century, the main developments occurred mainly after WW2 … confidence in the beneficial role of education for the economy, as well as a continuous progress relativising the sometimes …
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Patience Cycles
Barnett, Richard C.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Puhakka, Mikko - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 169 (2013) 2, pp. 339-354
human capital acquisition, giving the patient young an incentive to spend more on their own education at the expense of …
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Investment in financial literacy and saving decisions
Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 8, pp. 2779-2792
We present an intertemporal consumption model of investment in financial literacy. Consumers benefit from such investment because financial literacy allows them to increase the returns on wealth. Since literacy depreciates over time and has a cost in terms of current consumption, the model...
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Size-dependent gender gaps in entrepreneurship: The case of Chile
Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - In: Latin American Economic Review 31 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
and that this gap takes its largest value for managers with tertiary education or more. In terms of their number of …
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Size-dependent gender gaps in entrepreneurship : the case of Chile
Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-19
and that this gap takes its largest value for managers with tertiary education or more. In terms of their number of …
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Chapter 16 Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries
Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 945-1017). 2006
education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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What kind of individual education for which type of regional innovative competence? An exploration of data on French industries
Hussler, Caroline; Ronde, Patrick - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 7, pp. 873-889
Hussler C. and Ronde P. (2005) What kind of individual education for which type of regional innovative competence? An … with numerous innovative competences. Besides, the influence of other levels and types of education varies with the kind of …
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Chapter 5 Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution of Earnings: An International Perspective
Peracchi, Franco - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 189-254). 2006
This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages across schooling levels to the degree of variability,...
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Employee selection, education, and firm-provided training
Barrenechea-Méndez, Marco; Ortín Ángel, Pedro; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 25 (2022) 3, pp. 224-242
Theoretical debate suggests at least three strategies for firms to provide training to employees in the same job position: individualized and egalitarian with or without adaptation to the abilities of the recruited employees. The article provides a formal framework for deriving distinctive...
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Human Capital in Croatia
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - In: CESifo Forum 17 (2016) 1, pp. 39-42
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