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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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The Education-Innovation Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion
Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - 2016
We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy?
Vignoles, Anna - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Do skills matter for wage inequality?
Broecke, Stijn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...
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Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho, Veronica - 2016
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...
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Is it worth it? Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes for the disadvantaged
Backes, Ben; Holzer, Harry J.; Velez, Erin - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to...
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Arbeitsplatzorientierte Grundbildung für Geringqualifizierte - Ergebnisse einer IW-Unternehmensbefragung
Klein, Helmut E.; Schöpper-Grabe, Sigrid - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 42 (2015) 3, pp. 115-133
Die aktuelle Diskussion um die Sicherung des Fachkräftenachwuchses lenkt den Blick zunehmend auf die qualifikatorischen Potenziale an- und ungelernter Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Da es diesen aber an einer Berufsausbildung und zumeist auch an schulischer Grundbildung mangelt, steht die...
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Why so slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...
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