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This paper is a review of the current status of skill gap in India and reviews the initiatives, skills and competences that would be required for the purpose of transforming students into entrepreneurs. The author suggests that entrepreneurship skills and competencies are different from those...
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We assess the correlations between intelligence and financial development in 123 countries using data averages from 2000-2010. Human capital is measured in terms of IQ, cognitive ability & cognitive skills, while financial development is appreciated both from financial intermediary and stock...
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This paper investigates the perception of corporate managers regarding employability skills of management students undertaking summer internship with them. The study is divided into two parts wherein the first part consists of literature review and in-depth interviews of senior managers, and it...
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …
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paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
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(lower) secondary education, but without gains in the overall level. This contribution addresses the question of whether this …
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of …
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