Quality education is a key determinant for ASEAN's aspiration to be a single market and production base and to attract foreign investment. However, the region is characterized by an education divide in terms of quality and output, and this is likely to increase in the post-COVID-19 period. A...

Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in...

Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who...

Over the 1948-2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy program in northern Uganda. The program increases test scores by 1.4 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds show that the impact standard deviation exceeds 1.0 SD. This implies that the variation in effects...

This paper investigates how rms' productivity is a ected by the relationship between organiza- tional practices and workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among workers' level of education and a large set of...

This paper examines the relationship between countries' bilateral trade with the United States that is not due to gravity (non-gravity trade) and the distribution of income within countries. In countries where only a small share of the population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is...

A társadalom fenntarthatósággal kapcsolatos gondolkodásmódjának megváltozásához szükség van arra, hogy ismerjük a fenntarthatósági problémákat, és ennek fényében megváltoztassuk a hozzáállásunkat és magatartásunkat. Egyre több egyetem és szak támogatja a...

A fenntartható fogyasztással kapcsolatos kihívások kezelése kapcsán egyre növekvő szerephez jutnak azok a közösségek, melyek gyakorlatalapon szerveződnek. Ebben a cikkben azt vizsgálják a szerzők, milyen tanulási módok jellemzik a fenntartható fogyasztást...

A szerzők tanulmányukban tudásintenzív középvállalatok tanulási jellemzőinek a HR-gyakorlatokkal mutatott összefüggéseit vizsgálják. Az expanzív és korlátozó tanulási környezet koncepcióját használják fel, amely a munkahelyi tanulás...

The spread of digital culture is one of the biggest reprogramming of humanity, radically transforming our economic, social, and cultural models. One of the keys to success of this transformation, and to preventing the spread of digital divides, is the development of a variety of literacies....

Although researchers have investigated the association between education and crime, few studies have studied Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the lowest rate of youth enrolled in high school. Notwithstanding, some countries are paying attention to high school education, whereby specific policies...

A koronavírus-járvány elleni védekezés, a kényszerű online oktatás egyaránt jelentett óriási kihívást és fejlődésre ösztönző erőt. A Budapesti Corvinus Egyetemen a több mint 500 választ tartalmazó hallgatói kérdőíves felmérésünk bepillantást enged a 2020/2021. év...

A Köz-Gazdaság interjút kért Sipos Sándortól, a Világbank korábbi tanácsadójától, az Európai Uniós főtanácsadójától. Sipos Sándor 1981-ben végzett az akkori Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetemen, ezt követően a Világgazdasági Kutatóintézetben helyezkedett el....

A dél-koreai közoktatási rendszer sikerei vitathatatlanok: az analfabetizmus gyors felszámolása, az alapfokú oktatási rendszer gyors általánossá tétele, az átfogó szakképzési rendszer rövid időn belüli kialakítása a háború utáni korszak gyors sikereit jelentették. A...

Surányi Györggyel 2021.június 14-én készült beszélgetés a BCE Digitális Audiovizuális Történeti Archívum számára. Ennek szerkesztett változatát adjuk közre.

A tanulmány célja, hogy bemutassa a hazai középfokú agrárszakképzés alapvető tendenciáit, és bemutassa, hogy az agrárszakképzésben a vállalkozóvá válást milyen módon támogatja a középszintű szakképzés. A tanulmány kiinduló hipotézise, hogy az agrárium...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a widespread shift to online education around the world and in Hungary, too. Educational institutions from kindergartens to universities were forced to adapt rapidly to this new situation, when the space of education moved from classrooms to online video...

This paper discusses how leading innovative universities and their master’s programmes reflect rapidly changing social-economic technological trends. The increasing focus on the STEM subjects, the changing profile of business and MBA programmes, and the ratio of interdisciplinarity provide...

Tanulmányunkban nagymintás adminisztratív paneladatokon mutatjuk meg, hogy az országos kompetenciamérés 10. évfolyamos tesztpontszámai erősen összefüggnek a korai munkaerőpiaci helyzettel. Eredményeink szerint egy szórással jobb matematikai tesztpontszám átlagosan körülbelül...

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

This study uses a large-scale dataset from Vietnam to analyze the impacts of parental absence due to migration, death, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families have a better chance of enrolling at all levels of...

This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...

With the goal to shed more light on the effectiveness of parental time spent with their children, I estimate the causal relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of parental time in terms of the engagement in...

In der Corona-Pandemie hat der Staat in Deutschland auf verschiedenen Ebenen eine zentrale Rolle eingenommen, wodurch mehrere aus der Pandemiebekämpfung resultierende Sondereffekte die Entwicklung der Staatsaggregate in den Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) beeinflussen. Dazu zählen...

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes in within-province between-municipality college...

Despite the fast-growing body of literature on education and empowerment, young people's perception of their own educational setting has not received adequate attention in advancing our understanding of the empowering but also di sempowering elements of education. This is especially the case for...

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a school-going girl who lives more than 3 km from the...

We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality. Looking at the post-conflict environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a former Yugoslav state most heavily impacted by the conflicts of the early 1990s, the paper focuses on...

As of 2020, 770 million people still lack access to electricity worldwide and 10% of this population is in Nigeria. Nevertheless, the country has received so far little attention in this respect from the academic community. The economic literature also does not generally agree on the impact of...

With populations rapidly aging, the development over time in the cognitive function among the elderly approaching or reaching retirement is important for successful aging at work and planning pension policies. However, few studies in this field focus on this age group. This study characterizes...

We specify and estimate a lifecycle model of consumption, housing demand and labor supply in an environment where individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic...

The researchers have already recognized the importance of entrepreneurship, but the role of new venture internationalization is still a matter of research. This study is measuring the influence of education, age, technology, fear of failure, and competition on new venture internationalization....

This paper presents a framework of employee skills and competencies useful for developing occupational profiles for employees of companies transitioning towards Industry 4.0. The paper consists of a discussion of the theoretical and practical parts of case studies. The theoretical portion was...

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...