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The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher … education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part … of the post–secondary education system, equipping individuals with the skills to enter or re–enter the labour force and …
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Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European … countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary …-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education achievement is below the OECD average and strongly influenced by …
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Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While … backgrounds have a large impact. Another problem is that the proportion of younger people that completes tertiary education is … relatively low. The authorities are undertaking wide ranging reforms touching all levels of education to tackle these problems …
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An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … reallocation of resources as structural adjustment proceeds. Important reforms to decentralise primary and secondary education in … attention on quality control and the place of vocational education. Both are important in the tertiary sector, too, which has …
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of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … in formal education, and they do not perform as well as children from other OECD countries. Adults, especially the least … resources devoted to education and training but from inefficiencies and misallocation of spending, and weaknesses in the quality …
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Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing … reforms that are underway or planned to improve achievement of immigrant students. Another feature of Luxembourg.s education …
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expenditure on education, which is now among the highest in the OECD relative to GDP. Nonetheless, Iceland continues to have one … economic development. This is all the more unsatisfactory because spending per student in the compulsory education sector … satisfactory basic set of competencies, there is room for reducing the average duration of primary and secondary education, which …
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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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their lower education using their migration experience. Finally, we estimate the determinants of skill mismatch on the …
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make up for their lower education using their migration experience. Finally, we estimate the determinants of skill mismatch …, en particulier en Tunisie. Le phénomène de la sous-éducation est plus présent pour les migrants de retour, indiquant qu …'ils compensent leur faible niveau d'éducation en utilisant leur expérience migratoire. Enfin, nous examinons les déterminants de l …
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