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Worker Personality : Another Skill Bias Beyond Education in the Digital Age

Bode, Eckhardt - 2016

respect to skills acquired through education but also with respect to noncognitive skills (personality). We measure the … the Big Five personality traits from several German worker surveys. Even though we control extensively for education and …

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Formal Education and Public Knowledge

Iacopetta, Maurizio - 2014

acquiring a formal education, producing final goods, and innovating. The paper has two objectives: (i) uncovering the … macroeconomic circumstances that favored the rise of formal education; (ii) to reconcile the remarkable growth of the education … Lucas (1998), would attribute the arrival of education to the diminishing marginal productivity of physical capital …

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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa

Naudé, Wim - 2017

. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made. …

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One-to-one technology and student outcomes

Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017

New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...

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Gross Earning Inequalities in OECD Countries and Major Non-member Economies: Determinants and Future Scenarios

Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...

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Education and Training in a Model of Endogenous Growth with Creative Wear-and-Tear

Zon, Adriaan Van; Antonietti, Roberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

How does the rate at which firms adopt new technologies affect the level of education and training of a country … would be the optimum level of education spending in front of a faster arrival of new technologies? This paper tries to … answer these questions by developing an endogenous growth model with creative 'wear and tear' in which general education …

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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium: A quantitative analysis

Palmer, Thomas - 2024

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...

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Desigualdade intragrupos educacionais e crescimento

Costa, Ana Czeresnia; Kerstenetzky, Celia Lessa - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 25 (2006) 1, pp. 28-28

There is important evidence of a recent upsurge of so-called residual inequality, i.e. wage inequality that cannot be explained by workers? observable attributes, such as schooling. The main purpose of this article is to review the intuitions and results of some of the main theoretical models...

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Technological Change, investment in Human Capital, and Economic Growth.

Kim, J.Y.; Lee, J.W. - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - 2000

This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital. We set up an overlapping generations model in which young agents invest in both width and depth of human capital in order to adopt new technologies. The model develops...

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Good schools make good neighbors: Human capital spillovers in early 20th century agriculture

Parman, John - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 316-334

a leader in the expansion of secondary education. …

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