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Many paths to skilled employment : a reverse tracer study of eight occupations in Colombia

Ziderman, Adrian; Horn, Robin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

The authors use the reverse tracer study technique to identify alternative training paths for selected skilled and semi-skilled occupations in Colombia. The study, confirming earlier research for the United States, shows that workers pursue many different training paths to acquire the skills...

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India shining and Bharat drowning: comparing two Indian states to the worldwide distribution in mathematics achievement

Das, Jishnu; Zajonc, Tristan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper uses student answers to publicly released questions from an international testing agency together with statistical methods from Item Response Theory to place secondary students from two Indian states -Orissa and Rajasthan -on a worldwide distribution of mathematics achievement. These...

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Financing lifelong learning

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper describes and analyzes different financial schemes to promote lifelong learning. Considered are financial instruments to stimulate successful early learning, financial aid schemes and subsidization mechanisms. Theoretical analyses about funding of early learning have mainly focused on...

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The International Finance Corporation's MBA survey: how developing country firms rate local business school training

Chaudhry, Azam - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Graduate education in business administration was developed in the U.S. around the turn of the twentieth century. MBA and similar graduate-level business programs took hold more slowly in other countries, but the number of such programs expanded more rapidly from the 1960s onward. In an effort...

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The effect of job training on Peruvian women's employment and wages

Arriagada, Ana-Maria - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1989

This paper looks at the effect of post-school training on employment and wage opportunities of urban women. Attendance in post-school training programs is extensive. The more schooling a women has, the more likely she is to receive job training. Post-school training generally increases a woman's...

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Shared investment in general training : the role of information

Katz, Eliakim; Ziderman, Adrian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990

The major premise of this paper is that potential recruiters do not possess much information on the extent and type of workers'on-the-job-training. Workers taken for trained might turn out to possess no, or very little, general training. Also, a worker recruited for a given job may possess the...

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Immigrant overeducation : evidence from Denmark

Nielsen, Chantal Pohl - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Anecdotes abound in the Danish public debate about well-educated immigrants that are in jobs they are formally overqualified for. Using a 1995-2002 panel data set based on Danish registers, this study attempts to find out how large a problem immigrant overeducation is in the context of the...

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Education : past, present and future global challenges

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

Progress in educational development in the world since 1900 has been slow and uneven between countries. Providing basic education for all children in developing countries has been and remains an unmet challenge of governments and international organizations alike. This is in sharp contrast to...

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Unpacking the causal chain of financial literacy

Carpena, Fenella; Cole, Shawn; Shapiro, Jeremy; Zia, Bilal - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

A growing body of literature examines the causal impact of financial literacy on individual, household, and firm level outcomes. This paper unpacks the mechanism of impact by focusing on the first link in the causal chain. Specifically, it studies the experimental impact of financial literacy on...

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Disability, poverty and schooling in developing countries : results from eleven household surveys

Filmer, Deon - World Bank Group - 2005

This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their … the population is identified as having a disability. Youth with disabilities sometimes live in poorer households, but the … schooling attainment. The order of magnitude of the school participation disability deficit is often larger than those …

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