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A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …
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Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...
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consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …
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Using case studies in class becomes more and more common with the increasing need to make students experience real … students to gain hands-on experience of the real world and shifting the work focus from the professor to the student, the case …-study method becomes an efficient tool to the creation of a learner- rather than a teacher-centered education. The student becomes …
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school. The greater investments of women in education are consistent with their comparative advantage in cognitive tasks, but …
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
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This paper investigates the role of family ties for international return migration decisions. The presence of children in the household affects return propensities of couples in different ways. Results suggest that schooling considerations as well as factors related to cultural identity play a...
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The subject of this paper is e – learning, education process which is held with the use of some form of information and … analyse the survey based on the research. Research on students perception in Republic of Croatia about e-learning will show … boundaries of what we consider our own environment. Through this paper the importance of e - learning as an integral part of the …
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, employee education and work experience, job type and additional skills. Typical employee in accountancy has a full-time job … learning of countries legislation and International Financial Reporting Standards, interpersonal communication and …
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, information about previous education, attitudes towards learning, and goals after completing studies and information about the …Rapid technological development and progress lead to the need for better and more efficient education which should …, and finally determine how efficient studying is related to first employment. Models will be based on students' data and …
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