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Impact of Education on Inequality Across the Wage Distribution Profile in Cameroon : 2005-10
Baye, Francis Menjo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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The main obstacles to firms. growth in Senegal: Implications for the long run
Maurel, Mathilde - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms. accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165759
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Education as a Determinant of Development in World Economic Crisis
Lutovac, Milos; Todorovic, Vladimir; Rajkovic, Mile - ToKnowPress
In Serbia, as in almost every other country, education as an important developmen factor draws attention of its … microeconomic level formal education and training are of significant importance on employees’ productivity and salary. The situation …, education and training of workforce reperesent imperative for every country. Furthermore, special attention should be paid to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165939
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Research on Nurses’ Technical Skills Developement
Harpan, Ioana; Farkas, Zoltan-Bela; Draghici, Anca - ToKnowPress
Today, nurses required additional technical skills to use new technology and apparatus (e.g. imagistic apparatus, scanners or screenings, etc.) but also, abilities to perform specific duties to their profession (e.g. calculating drug dosages, medication administration, gastric tube insertion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165941
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A Comparative Study of Important Knowledge and Skills of Marketing Professionals
Vukasovic, Tina - ToKnowPress
The marketing discipline has in recent years greatly transformed. The marketing concept has been extended, deepened, the redefined and repositioned. In the last fifteen years, many authors point out that the marketing of a variety of factors occurred in the mature phase that is in crisis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165944
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Elementary School Data Issues: Implications for Research Using Value-Added Models
Isenberg, Eric; Teh, Bing-ru; Walsh, Elias - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
This working paper compares teacher/student links that have undergone a roster confirmation process—whereby teachers verify the subjects and students they taught—to teacher/student links from unconfirmed administrative data. Due to the departmentalization of instruction in math and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165987
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Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America
Chiang, Hanley S.; Clark, Melissa A.; McConnell, Sheena - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165991
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Replicating Experimental Impact Estimates with Nonexperimental Methods in the Context of Control Crossover
Gill, Brian; Furgeson, Joshua; Chiang, Hanley S.; Teh, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
Ideally, nonexperimental methods that aim to replicate the results of rigorous randomized experiments focus on the intent to treat (ITT) experimental impact estimate, the most causally rigorous measure. This working paper develops a new replication approach that facilitates testing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165995
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Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Treatment Effects? Reassessing Bias in Nonexperimental Estimators
Fortson, Kenneth; Gleason, Philip; Kopa, Emma; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
Nonexperimental methods, such as regression modeling or statistical matching, produce unbiased estimates if the underlying assumptions hold, but these assumptions are usually not testable. Most studies testing nonexperimental designs find that they fail to produce unbiased estimates, but these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165998
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Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cultural and educational relations
Stoica, Alina; Toca, Constantin-Vasile - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The work aims at capturing the cultural dimension of education in the Romanian-Hungarian border and the priority of the …, passing in this task by a foray into the history of cooperation at the level of the communities in study. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166049