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education and training, and the emergence of a permanent labour surplus economy.  …
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This paper presents a general survey of the Swiss economy. It emphasises the various factors that have been put forward to explain the very low unemployment rate recorded in Switzerland up to the beginning of the 1990s. It also analyses the factors which may be held responsible for the dramatic...
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institutional and historical background is first presented, after which we analyse the education profile of the immigrants through … dummies. The main results are that the assimilation process is closely connected with the education profile of the immigrants …
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relying on massive continuous education and retraining programmes as the most efficient solution to this problem needs to be … their own continuous education needs. The reasons for this inactivity at the individual level may well lie in the lack of … education‐related differences in wages being very slight.  …
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This article traces the experience of countries reforming their vocational education and training policies and … change in vocational education and training systems in response to changing labor markets and innovative approaches to … facilitating the provision of information about vocational education and training has been relatively neglected; a vigorous private …
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Presents the text of a speech, given by Tony Blair MP to the Labour Party Conference in September 1991. The Party pledges of investment, partnership and parity in Europe are outlined.
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Provides a model of human capital search by examining college student migration across states. Tests pertinent investment and consumption benefits. Employs OLS estimation for 49 states, with unique measures for college quality, college climate, and college location. Tests income and price...
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performance is affected by tenure and education. Finds tenure, which represents “firm‐specific human capital” and years of … multivariate regression analysis. An interaction effect of tenure and education was not found to be significant, probably due to …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative academic effectiveness of vocational education in three … instrumental variables approach to estimate vocational education’s relative academic effectiveness in terms of achievement on an … vocational education are about the same as in the academic track.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the gender specific private returns on education (RE) in Europe in a …
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