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Student exposure to socio-economic diversity and students’ university outcomes – Evidence from English administrative data
Braakmann, Nils; McDonald, Stephen - 2018
Many countries encourage universities to increase the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of their student bodies, for example, through affirmative action policies. We use unique administrative data for all undergraduate degree students entering English universities between 2008 and 2010 to...
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A teacher unlike me: Social distance, learning, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries
Karachiwalla, Naureen - 2013
Same-type teachers are extolled as a way to improve learning outcomes of socially disadvantaged students. This paper uses a relatively understudied social characteristic, caste, to study whether same-type teachers improve learning in a low-income country. Rich longitudinal data from Pakistan...
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Endogenous Growth with Public Factors and Heterogeneous Human Capital Producers
Thomas, Ziesemer - 1994
If government revenues from a flat-rate income tax are spent on public factors and public factors are used for human capital production and human capital is used for the production of technical progress, then a higher rate of taxation will lead to a higher rate of technical progress if steady...
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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights
Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - 2012
This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820 …
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Mediterraneo e Unione Europea tra migrazioni e crescita sostenibile
Schilirò, Daniele - 2016
Mediterraneo ed Europa sono due realtà storicamente legate da rapporti economici, culturali e sociali. Questo contributo esamina, in particolare, gli aspetti economici e sociali delle migrazioni verso l’Europa provenienti dai paesi del Sud ed Est del Mediterraneo e i diversi problemi che...
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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IMPORTANCE OF THE HUMAN FACTOR IN THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
BRETCU, Angela - 2016
the development of information and communication techniques, which allowed the occurrence of the „knowledge-based society …, where the human factor becomes increasingly important for the evolution of society. In this context, education seems to play … the decisive part, but an education focused on real values, where the truth and the ethics prevail before efficiency and …
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IMPORTANCE OF THE HUMAN FACTOR IN THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
BRETCU, Angela - 2016
the development of information and communication techniques, which allowed the occurrence of the „knowledge-based society …, where the human factor becomes increasingly important for the evolution of society. In this context, education seems to play … the decisive part, but an education focused on real values, where the truth and the ethics prevail before efficiency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015336164
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Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of Skill Formation, Wage Compression, and Electoral Systems
Soskice, David - 2010
A major puzzle in the open economy literature is why some countries have persistently higher real exchange rates than others. Even more puzzling is the fact that countries with high real exchange rates are strong export performers. We solve both puzzles with a model that integrates two central...
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