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With the UK's cap on tuition fees due to rise to £9,000, Gill Wyness looks at the impact of past fee increases on young people's decisions to go to university.
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work in sectors where education is relatively highly valued. Controlling for this effect does indeed account for much of …
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Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return … panel of Italian regions. We include measures of average, primary, secondary and tertiary education. We find that increased … education seems to contribute to growth only in the South. Decomposing total schooling into its three constituent parts, we find …
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Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing … countries over the 1980s and 1990s to document trends in men's returns to education, and to estimate whether the changes in …
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The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled- to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
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frequent users. Education and the exposure to media coverage also matters. We find a large impact of suicide attacks during …
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If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? If teachers were better paid and higher up the national income distribution, would there be an improvement in pupil performance? Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez examine the enormous variation in teachers' pay across OECD countries and its...
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England's most widely used indicator of young people's education and labour market status is the NEET category - 'not … in education, employment or training'. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers' progression …
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While there has been intense debate in the empirical literature about the effects of minimum wages on inequality in the US, its general equilibrium effects have been given little attention. In order to quantify the full effects of a decreasing minimum wage on inequality, I build a dynamic...
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Forward by Sir Roy Gardner (Chairman, Compass Group plc; Chairman, Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network) August 2010: I am pleased to commend this report, commissioned by the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network, of which I am Chairman. The Network is a group of senior business leaders committed to...
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