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education, experience and industry variables have important, variable and differing impacts upon both participation and income …
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The paper draws upon the work of T.W. Schultz to show that human capital theory andlabor market adjustments have important implications for investing in people for the 21st Century.[...]
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from countries with stronger labor protection. Workers with positive perceptions of automation also tend to respond that re-education …
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This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and labor force participation on aggregate productivity and income per capita. We simulate an occupational choice model with heterogeneous agents in entrepreneurial ability, where agents choose to be workers,...
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remedial education to the pupils having lost years of education, and offering retraining to job losers still far from …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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been successful in adjusting the required level of skills over time. The education system plays a key role in developing … skills and achieves good results, but there is room to make vocational education and lifelong learning less job-specific to …
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
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