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). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
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learning. Finally, I outline how education, training and labour market policies could help expand the supply of digital skills. …
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learning. Finally, I outline how education, training and labour market policies could help expand the supply of digital skills. …
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. Low employment protection encourages costly education efforts to access high productivity and high innovation sectors … thus provides incentives for costly self-insurance against unemployment risk through education, mitigating the moral hazard …
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Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …
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top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
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participation. We build an overlapping generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions …. Cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children depend on the cognitive skills and education of parents, and affect education … be used to fund education, supplementing grants, loans and the labor supply of the children themselves during college …
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