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How to allocate college seats across regions is an important yet largely neglected issue. It may imply a policy tradeoff between efficiency in aggregate human capital production and equality of opportunities for people growing up in different places. Furthermore, the flow of college attendance,...
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The National Development Plan in South Africa aims to combat inequality. The Department of Higher Education and Training has identified goals for public universities not only to improve knowledge creation, transmission, and exchange but also equity. This paper analyzes the degree to which...
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The National Development Plan in South Africa aims to combat inequality. The Department of Higher Education and Training has identified goals for public universities not only to improve knowledge creation, transmission, and exchange but also equity. This paper analyzes the degree to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213797
´(ILO, 2016) estimates that it will take at least 70 years to close the gender pay gap. From this general framework of …
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Abstract (ENG): This paper aims to examine the evolution of doctoral training in Italy after the regulatory interventions related to the so-called Gelmini reform. The analysis is based on data extracted from the Cineca-CercaUniversity website. More precisely, this research examines the number of...
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example, through affirmative action policies. We use unique administrative data for all undergraduate degree students entering … English universities between 2008 and 2010 to investigate the role of a more diverse environment for students’ degree outcomes …. We find a complex picture – a more diverse environment is beneficial for students, but so is meeting some students from …
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This paper sheds light on the microfoundations of reduced-form returns to education. Specifically, we ask: are more advanced higher education degrees associated with increased earnings within employers or higher average pay across employers? And to the extent that sorting across firms matters,...
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, investigating whether there is evidence of inequity arising from students’ personal and socioeconomic characteristics. A rich and … novel dataset comprising microdata on undergraduate college graduates and new master’s students is used for the empirical … analysis. Students’ decisions to progress to graduate education are modeled as a two-stage process, and the parameters are …
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, little is known about the students’ impact on the settings they return to. This article examines the impact of Romanian … international mobile students on the origin communities. The respondents indicate a positive experience during the mobility, with … language and academic knowledge as the main accumulations. Significant differences are detected in terms of students’ impact on …
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; integration of teachers, students, scientific equipment in scientific schools; active forms of the educational process, business …
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