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Marché du travail en revue - Octobre 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
L’alphabétisme est capital pour l’amélioration de toute société. Tout un chacun ne peut participer entièrement au discours social et politique, et aura sans doute une position inférieure en société, s’il ne possède pas l’alphabétisme de base lui permettant d’atteindre ses...
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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled
Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
the effects of skilled return migrants which bring about the transfer of knowledge and skills. This paper examines five …
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Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme
Bauchmüller, Robert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes are presumed to have positive effects in particular for children who are at risk of failing during their school careers. However, there is disagreement on whether such programmes should be more teacher and curriculum based or rather centred on the...
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Returns to Apprenticeship in Canada
Boothby, Daniel; Drewes, Torben - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
The paper exploits the newly available Census data on the earnings of individuals in the apprenticeable trades to examine the returns to apprenticeship training. Only a small minority of males work in these trades, concentrated in the construction, production and mechanical trades where their...
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Apprenticeship Program Requirements and Apprenticeship Completion Rates in Canada
Coe, Patrick J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Over the past two decades there has been considerable growth in the number of new apprenticeship registrations in Canada. However, this has not been matched by a corresponding increase in the number of apprenticeship completions. As a result Canadian apprenticeship programs have seen declining...
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Long Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation
Emery, Herb; Ferrer, Ana; Green, David - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Tight labour markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil producing economies like the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks of 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long term effect on the productivity of the...
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...
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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper examines the industrial performance indicators and the relationships between skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new growth literature, concerning the correlation...
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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
leads to poor provision of training; low skill levels; skills mismatch; low transfer of knowledge/external schooling effect … of networks systems and collaboration between universities and industry/firms, low transfer of knowledge and a lack of … entrepreneur perspective. We support our third hypothesis that the transfer of knowledge/external schooling effects is successful …
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