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Sweet child o'mine : the impact of mining on educational and labor market outputs in Colombia
Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2024
education. However, they also negatively impact entry into the formal labor market, particularly for roles associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014479640
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Report on Productivity Trends in Selected Natural Resource Industries in Canada
Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004
The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected natural resource industries and in the overall natural resource sector in Canada. This report provides a concise review of the findings of a detailed analysis undertaken by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481830
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Productivity Trends in Natural Resources Industries in Canada
Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
forestry and logging, wood products and paper products; mining; and manufacturing industries involved with the processing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650224
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The Education-Innovation Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266618
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The economic consequences of setting foot in a college in Colombia
Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2020
enter higher education and/or the formal labor market (5.4 million graduates). I compare graduates within the same secondary … school and cohorts to estimate the premium of higher education. I estimate the sheepskin effect by exploiting the phenomenum … years of formal labor market experience. I also find high positive correlations between the quality of higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314929
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014329721
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The economic consequences of setting foot in a college in Colombia
Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2020
enter higher education and/or the formal labor market (5.4 million graduates). I compare graduates within the same secondary … school and cohorts to estimate the premium of higher education. I estimate the sheepskin effect by exploiting the phenomenum … years of formal labor market experience. I also find high positive correlations between the quality of higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314533
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The education-innovation gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167978
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Beyond Education for All : Meeting the Human Resource Needs of Economic Development
Mahmud, Wahiduddin - 2015
The global education goals, with their emphasis on the quantitative indicators such as the enrollment rates or the … number of years of schooling, may have led to too narrow a focus in linking education to human capital development. While … many low-income countries have made remarkable progress towards achieving universal primary education, there are serious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133929
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355