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Improving Education Quality in South Africa

Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...

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Gross Earning Inequalities in OECD Countries and Major Non-member Economies: Determinants and Future Scenarios

Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...

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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital

Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance … of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … of the services that compound the low starting point of Portugal regarding education. Modernizing the Portuguese economy …

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Education and Invention

Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...

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Boosting Productivity in Russia: Skills, Education and Innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

persist.<P> Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and … Russie : Les compétences, l'éducation et l'innovation<BR>Le marché du travail en Russie est très flexible. Les entreprises s …

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 2. The Distribution of Labour Income

Koske, Isabell; Fournier, Jean-Marc; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

This paper explores the role of macroeconomic factors and structural policies in shaping the distribution of labour income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy can also have an important influence on inequality...

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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are they Compatible? Part 7. The Drivers of Labour Earnings Inequality – An Analysis Based on Conditional and Unconditional Quantile Regres...

Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

Unconditional and conditional quantile regressions are used to explore the determinants of labour earnings at different parts of the distribution and, hence, the determinants of overall labour earnings inequality. The analysis combines several household surveys to provide comparable estimates...

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Segregation in Education and Labour Market Discrimination: The Role of Peer Beliefs

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we examine the long term effects of socialization and segregation in schools, on labour market outcomes. We incorporate a model of “informational” peer influence by which beliefs of pupils are affected by exposure to other pupils’ posterior beliefs. Specifically, we focus on...

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