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Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as ... Show more
Date: 2001
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Finance; Employment; Labour market ... [+] Show more
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The return to schooling in structural dynamic models: a survey
This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structur ... Show more
Date: 2006
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Outcomes; Income; Research ... [+] Show more
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high yout ... Show more
Date: 2005
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Participation; Students ... [+] Show more
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Universities as stakeholders in their students' careers: on the benefits of graduate taxes to finance higher education
We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, ... Show more
Date: 2010
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Higher education; Finance; Providers of education and training ... [+] Show more
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Post-secondary education in Canada: can ability bias explain the earnings gap between college and university graduates?
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Un ... Show more
Date: 2007
Geographic subjects: North America; Canada
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Secondary education; Gender; Research ... [+] Show more
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The GED
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. Th ... Show more
Date: 2010
Geographic subjects: North America; Canada; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Qualifications; Secondary education; Participation ... [+] Show more
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Educational scores: how does Russia fare?
This paper uses two large multi-country datasets on educational scores - [Programme for International Student Asses ... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: Russia; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Outcomes; Quality ... [+] Show more
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The return to the firm investment in human capital
In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job trainin ... Show more
Date: 2005
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Outcomes; Skills and knowledge; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement ... Show more
Date: 2010
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Economics; Research ... [+] Show more
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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development?: the dynamic effects of alternative training schemes
This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of two alternative training schemes for the unemployed: short, ... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Germany; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Employment; Teaching and learning ... [+] Show more