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microsimulation model to project individuals' educational participation and qualification. The microsimulation model simulates …
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We discuss existing shortfalls and inequalities in the accumulation of human capital—knowledge, skills, and health. We analyze their immediate and systemic causes, and assess the scope for public intervention. The broad policy goals should be to improve: the quality, and not just the quantity,...
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This study investigates the effect of cohort crowding on educational attainment and labor market performance by employing discontinuities in schooling cohort size induced by China’s Compulsory Education Law. Similar to other developing countries, China is faced with education supply...
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I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d …
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The paper describes in detail a dynamic microsimulation model called ISMIK, developed to project the educational …
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embedding microsimulation in a parsimonious macro model of a small open economy. We estimate and calibrate the model to Hungary …We present a new general-equilibrium behavioural microsimulation model designed to assess long-run macroeconomic and … of the macroeconomic effects of tax and transfer reforms. -- behavioural microsimulation ; linked micro macro model ; tax …
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by divergence in tax-benefit systems. We take the example of two countries, the Czech Republic and Hungary, which …-level data the labour supply estimation for Hungary presented in Benczúr et al. (2014) and use the two perfectly comparable … maternity benefit system in place in Hungary as compared to the Czech Republic …
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In the last decade, several Latin American governments have implemented new teacher recruitment policies based on evaluations of candidates' competency and knowledge so as to raise the quality of their teachers and schools. Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to...
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development within that framework are limited. Lately, with advances in technical and computational capacity, the microsimulation … dynamic spatial microsimulation model, and discuss the usefulness of prediction intervals for planning. Using data for Norway …
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In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can effectively improve the quality of primary schooling, as measured by pupil test-based achievements. Particular attention is devoted to the experience of England, a country which...
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