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include macroeconomic management, human capital, trade, governance, and labour and capital markets. Given strong …
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, with Syria having achieved near universal primary education enrolment and a high rate of completed secondary education. Due … important education-related questions for the international community as a whole, like the educational background of Syrians … Syrian education in the broader global context. It aims to provide detailed information that other researchers, policymakers …
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based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to … decreased: the differences between women of medium/high education and low educated women diminished. However, the childlessness …
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-demographic determinants, disaster experience and education are found to be key predictors of individual disaster preparedness. This paper … explores the pathways through which education enhances disaster preparedness and the interplay between education and experience …: the Philippines and Thailand. While education raises the propensity to prepare against disasters, we further find that the …
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sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
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market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …
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experiences. In particular, it examines differences between students who have pursued technical education programs from those who … have pursued academic programs and from those individuals who have not pursued any type of postsecondary education …
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This paper presents a systematic, baseline picture of workplace education programs in small and medium-sized businesses … offering workplace education programs, what are the characteristics of the programs being provided, and what are the impacts of … opportunity to receive education in basic skills through their workplace. …
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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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competition and new innovations in the provision of education, the evidence from this study implies that they will need to make up …
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