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This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …
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In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
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presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …
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