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This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in … terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately linked to differences in R&D costs, might be responsible for … the persistence of such a gap. In fact, in a model where human capital accumulation and innovation are strategic …
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The article contains results of research and analysis of innovative forms of higher education in modern China which is … components of management experience of universities (higher schools) of modern China in order to modernize higher education in …
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Design education is usually based on the paradigm of innovation defined as a mere application of science. This paper … rationality in the design education drives us to invent“pedagogy of the adventure”. …
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increases learning achievement, and also the future earnings and returns students expect from a college education, but no effect … on the earnings expected with high school education alone. This suggests that students believe that the benefits from … their elite education are complements to a college education. …
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This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a … the Russian Federation that the increase in the returns to education which happened in previous years does not indicate … education is deconstructed in three parts characterizing the labor market : education-occupation match, payment for occupations …
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This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...
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We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
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Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity,...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784106