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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 …
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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...
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presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …
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by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
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The objective of this note is to highlight how social protection can help lay the human capital foundations needed for poverty reduction and economic growth in the East Asia and Pacific region while also building, protecting, and deploying the human capital needed to keep up with and take...
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where non-cognitive skills that increase human capital through education also increase labor market skills, our findings … valuable in the labor market. We follow work from psychology and categorize observed classroom misbehavior into two underlying …
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This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary … education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be …
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broader welfare implications. This is important since system technologies like ISFM mostly involve higher labor and capital …’ likelihood to engage in other economic activities. We further study effects on labor demand, food security and children …'s education. We use the inverse probability weighting regression adjustment method, and propensity score matching as robustness …
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