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Struggling to make the grade : a review of the causes and consequences of the weak outcomes of South Africa's education system

Mlachila, Montfort; Moeletsi, Tlhalefang - 2019

While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education enrollment, the country still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational achievement by almost any international metric. The paper finds that money is clearly not the main issue since the...

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Skill selectivity in transatlantic migration : the case of Canary Islanders in Cuba

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The Western Australian convicts

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Protestantism and human capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea

McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013

Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009)...

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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...

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Literacy and numeracy skills and education sector reform : evidence from Ghana

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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy …

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Media literacy and development of human and social capital in the European Union

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A golden age before serfdom? : the human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the 17th-19th centuries

Baten, Jörg; Szołtysek, M. - 2014

: numeracy. We draw upon new evidence for Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards; and for Belarus, Ukraine, and … Lithuania from the 18th century onwards; controlling for potential selectivity issues. Poland had quite high levels of numeracy … in the area, numeracy levels in Poland were lower than those of western Europe during the 17th, 18th, and early 19th …

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