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This paper investigates the relationship between education and the location of multinational affiliates. It finds that … US multinationals seek production locations with high levels of education rather than with uneducated labour. Furthermore …, the education effect can be separated from the effects of overall economic development. Based on these results, the paper …
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Using parametric and non-parametric methods this article examines the evolution of poverty and inequality in Chile between 1990 and 1996. This period is interesting because of the rapid growth exhibited by the Chilean economy. Using the Datt-Ravallion decomposition economic growth accounts for...
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Assessing the economic development of Latin America during the twentieth century requires reliable estimates of living standards as measured by per capita income, life expectancy, and literacy. New comparable series for Latin America suggest that these three indicators made the greatest strides...
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The purpose of this paper is to measure the contribution of education to growth in per capita real GDP in Australia … percent was contributed by education. This finding has important implications for policy makers in Australia. For example, in … order to promote economic growth in coming years, access to post compulsory education, particularly vocational education and …
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research performance that develop the different units that integrate it. This analysis is based on a set of criteria and … indicator that we consider excellent to measure research performance of each department and their relative importance. We use …
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the secondary education centres of A Coruña in Spain using the concept of production function. To this end Data … Envelopment Analysis is used, since it is inherently flexible and therefore most suited to the peculiarities of the education …
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, traditional practices in the field of special education, and the effects of the depressed economic situation within the region …
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Evidence is considered on differences in access to education and in learning achievement within the countries of …
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years. Author Christopher Heady moves away from conventional studies on child labour and education, which tend to focus on …
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