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In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...
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This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students … are more likely to end their education early and repeat grades, especially in Spain, Germany and Italy. The distribution …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the South, focusing on LAC and East Asia over the 32 years before the … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content …
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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