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education to assess the potential for skill imbalances to emerge. Based on our formal projections, we see little likelihood of …
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radical effect on the transformation of education and training in all sectors demonstrating how pervasive ICT has become with …
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This paper attempts to test whether women systematically get less education than their male siblings and is based on … systematically get less parental investment in their education than their male siblings. Thus, pure human capital models of labour …
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The study of human life from the beginning of the history of creation to the present suggests that the Entrepreneurial factor plays an important role in the development of societies. In other words, we can say that Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs have been active since old times, but they...
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Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged benefits of smallness—of classroom …
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fields of education, health, cash transfers, taxation and personal social services. In addition, the labour market and …
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parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …
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rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …
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marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …
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We propose the rise of crack cocaine markets as an explanation for the end to the convergence in black-white educational outcomes beginning in the mid-1980s. After constructing a measure to date the arrival of crack markets in cities and states, we show large increases in murder and...
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