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We study a developing economy in which the representative firm's production function exhibits complementarities between human capital and the available level of technology. The firm invests in the acquisition of new technology, while employees decide how much human capital to acquire. The speed...

This book is mainly a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Economics of Education at the University of Tartu, Estonia. The contributions presented here illustrate the wide variety of issues as human and social capital, skills, education and research...

"This book explores why equality and equity are often mischaracterized as interchangeable terms in public education. It discusses equity, including historical and social contexts of equity, rationale for continued focus on equality, school reform as a form of equity and the how a Eurocentric...