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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258249
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Economic returns to education : what we know, what we don't know, and where we are going ; some brief pointers
Harmon, Colm - 2011
The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...
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Wages and human capital : evidence from the Irish data
Redmond, Sandra - 1999
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Ausbildungsinadäquate Beschäftigung der Absolventen des Bildungssystems
Büchel, Felix; Weißhuhn, Gernot - 1998
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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Schooling as a risky investment : a survey of theory and evidence
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2013
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Die betriebliche Ausbildungsbereitschaft im technologischen und demographischen Wandel
Franz, Wolfgang; Steiner, Viktor; Zimmermann, Volker - 2000 - 1. Aufl.
Im Zusammenhang mit dem drängenden Problem der zunehmenden Jugendarbeitslosigkeit kommt dem Dualen System der Berufsausbildung besonderes Interesse zu. Empirische Studien zu dieser Institution sind rar. Ausgehend von einer Darstellung der zeitlichen Entwicklung und der aktuellen Situation des...
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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...
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Economic returns to education : what we know, what we don’t know, and where we are going ; some brief pointers
Harmon, Colm - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259459