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workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of … entail strong incentives to retire early and human capital is thus written off too quickly. -- Skill formation ; human … workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of …

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio - 2005

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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Chapter 9. The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

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The importance of noncognitive skills : lessons from the GED testing program

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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

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