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Australians have increased their educational attainment over the past few decades, essentially catching up with their peers in the rest of the OECD. Although older Australians have lower upper secondary attainment, the educational attainment of young Australians is similar to the OECD average....
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This article examines trends in labour force participation for people with different levels of educational attainment. The article offers insights into the labour market behaviour of people with different skill attributes and discusses the possible implications of a more highly educated workforce.
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of Canada, have either high inequality and low mobility or low inequality and high mobility. Education is an important … education outcomes in Australia and Canada, as reflected in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment scores …, are likely to play an important role in explaining Australia and Canada’s experience. Education outcomes alone, however …
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Family background is known to have a substantial impact on students' literacy and numeracy results. This raises questions about whether any of the remaining differences in results are due to school performance — or whether they are merely due to random noise. This article reviews research from...
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his paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing …
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How did small exporters fare relative to large exporters during the 2008-09 crisis? Examining the performance of Mexican exporters reveals that the crisis did not make smaller exporters more likely to exit, grow less, or expand less their product line relative to larger exporters. Workhorse...
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consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …
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consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …
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higher education were questioned in 1978 (Bakke) by a decision of the Supreme Court which incited universities to promote …
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. I find that higher levels of education lead to lower levels of religious affiliation later in life. An additional year … of education leads to a 4-percentage-point decline in the likelihood that an individual identifies with any religious …
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