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The Choice of For-Profit College
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
pricing, or random circumstances). The main student-level data samples come from the National Education Longitudinal Study of … 1988 (NELS:88) and the associated Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS:2000). I estimate a multinomial logit of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514895
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The Effects of For-Profit College Training on Earnings
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
significant effects of for-profit Associate degrees for males are due to the unrelated vocational training. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514897
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For-Profit Student Heterogeneity
Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this study, I use three data sets collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514903
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Education, labor market and development : a review of the trends and issues in the Philippines for the past 25 years
Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2003 - revised, this version December 2003
This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past … 25 years. It highlights the trends on how the labor market used educated workers. It also reviews how education has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431785
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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Women in developing countries : Report
TNS Political & Social - 2013
Published on International Women's Day 2013, this survey presents the views of European citizens on gender equality and the empowerment of women in developing countries. It also tests how people believe to what extent certain problems affect men and women in these countries.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799362
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257432
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Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines
Lam, Le Thi Ai - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
unskilled labor situation, and low rate of return on education at basic levels. The poor faced high rate of underemployment and … Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded … educational capital. However, in education, the rich and the poor are separated by two different educational divisions …
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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo e...
Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank
Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772319
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Making Jobs Good
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667720