2024-03-29T08:30:29Z
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1343
2019-09-26T22:58:59Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1343/
The role of education in wage determination in China's rural industrial sector
meng, xin
I20 - General
J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials
The TVP labour market has undergone a great change during the economic reform period. Starting from a fully controlled recruitment system, more employees obtained employment through a more market oriented mechanism. This study applies human capital theory to investigate the impact of this institutional change on TVP wage determination. It is found that education as one of most important human capital variables plays an important role on the wage determination of those who obtained jobs through own effort (the market group), while it is insignificant for those who were assigned to the jobs (the non-market group). The further analysis suggests that although education plays different role on the market and non-market groups wage determination they are both productivity orientated. And the reason for this might be that the underlying technological processes of the work undertaken by the market group is higher than that for the non-market group. Does education, therefore, plays no role for the non-market group? The paper employs a logit model to prove that education is an important determinant for both the market and the non-market groups' occupational attainment. This suggests the following general picture: for the market group, there is a direct relationship between education, occupation and wage determination; for the non-market group this relationship is somewhat indirect. The rate of return to education is more likely to be reflected by non-wage benefit.
1995
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1343/1/MPRA_paper_1343.pdf
meng, xin (1995): The role of education in wage determination in China's rural industrial sector. Published in: Education Economics , Vol. 3, No. 3 (1995): pp. 235-247.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1385
2019-09-29T07:02:02Z
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7375626A656374733D46:4631:463135
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1385/
Vietnam’s Trade Liberalisation: Potential Impacts on Child Well-being
Nguyen, Anh
Jones, Nicola
F15 - Economic Integration
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
I20 - General
Following extensive economic and market reforms and more than a decade of negotiations, Vietnam became the latest country to accede to the World Trade Organization in November 2006. While it is expected that greater integration into the world economy will boost Vietnam’s economic growth and contribute to the country’s ongoing transition towards a market economy, there are concerns about potentially negative impacts on vulnerable sectors of the population, including remote rural populations, women and children. This paper examines the possible impacts of Vietnam’s trade liberalisation on children in poor communities. It focuses on three key aspects of child well-being – child work (domestic and extra-household), educational attainment and health status – drawing on data from the first wave of the Young Lives Vietnam longitudinal survey on childhood poverty. Our main findings point to significant differences based on ethnicity, household poverty status and vulnerability to declining living standards, parental (especially maternal) education levels, children’s involvement in work activities, and access to public services.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1385/1/MPRA_paper_1385.pdf
Nguyen, Anh and Jones, Nicola (2006): Vietnam’s Trade Liberalisation: Potential Impacts on Child Well-being.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1416
2019-09-28T04:34:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1416/
Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom
Ilmolelian, Peter
J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers
I20 - General
C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions
Using the Africa Educational Trust (AET) as a case study, the primary aim of the research was to investigate whether or not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training courses were different from those who did not. 122 individuals who applied to AET for grants in 1993/94 were interviewed and data analysed using the Probit model and McNemar's Chi- squared test of significance. The study found that grant holders were more likely to successfully complete their courses than those who did not receive any grants and that there was a positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject area were not statistically significant, the results suggested that computing and IT studies were less likely to lead to employment than education/ social science and health studies.
2005-01-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1416/1/MPRA_paper_1416.pdf
Ilmolelian, Peter (2005): Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom. Published in: EconPapers No. http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wpawuwphe/0501004.htm (10 January 2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1622
2019-09-27T05:07:19Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4932:493232
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1622/
Educational(work)performance in african countries: problems, policies and prospects
Nwaobi, Godwin
I21 - Analysis of Education
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
I20 - General
Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable economic growth and for a better quality of life. Recognizing this fact, African governments have placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary school through university to the past four decades. More over, international organization have put so much emphasis on supporting educational expansion and improvement in Africa. However, education in Africa is in crisis today (and most especially for African universities). Enrollments rise as capacities for government support decline; talented staff are abandoning the campuses; libraries are out dated; research output are dropping, students are protesting overcrowded and inhospitable conditions; staffs are equally protesting poor working conditions (with continues strikes); university graduates are seriously underemployed or unemployed; and general educational quality is deteriorating. The need for action is urgent and thus effective educational policy making is imperative for the eradication of the identified problems.
2007-01-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1622/1/MPRA_paper_1622.pdf
Nwaobi, Godwin (2007): Educational(work)performance in african countries: problems, policies and prospects.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2186
2019-09-26T11:06:21Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2186/
An extension to the neoclassical growth modelto Estimate Growth and Level Effects
Rao, B. Bhaskara
Singh, Rup
Nisha, Fozia
O56 - Oceania
O40 - General
O1 - Economic Development
I29 - Other
O30 - General
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
I20 - General
The neoclassical growth model was extended by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992)
to estimate the level effects of additional factors like human capital.
We suggest a further extension to capture their permanent growth effects.
Time series data from Fiji are used to show that
the growth effect of human capital, although small, is significant. Furthermore,
in our sample the specifications with a permanent growth effect performed better than
specifications with only level effects.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2186/1/MPRA_paper_2186.pdf
Rao, B. Bhaskara and Singh, Rup and Nisha, Fozia (2006): An extension to the neoclassical growth modelto Estimate Growth and Level Effects.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2811
2019-09-26T22:37:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2811/
Educación, experiencia y especialización manufacturera en la frontera norte de México
Mendoza, Jorge Eduardo
I21 - Analysis of Education
L60 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
I20 - General
With the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (TLCAN) the northern region manufacturing sector of Mexico exhibited a fast growth during the nineties. This paper seeks to estimate the effects of schooling, labor experience and specialization on labor maquiladora income in the cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. A weighted LS model was established, using labor earning as the dependent variable, and experience schooling and specialization as the explanatory variables. The results showed that in the northern cities both schooling and experience resulted in higher labor income, particularly in intensive capital and technological industries. The coefficient of specialization was higher in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez than in the rest of the cities included.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2811/1/MPRA_paper_2811.pdf
Mendoza, Jorge Eduardo (2002): Educación, experiencia y especialización manufacturera en la frontera norte de México. Published in: Comercio Exterior , Vol. Vol. 5, No. no. 4 (April 2002): pp. 300-308.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3613
2019-09-26T19:00:54Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3613/
Aprender a aprender. Un método valioso para la educación superior.
Fernández Montt, René
Wompner, Fredy
I20 - General
The following work corresponds to a directed test to analyze a learning strategy that receives the great protagonism within the different theories that today are known, where the analysis discusses and displays problematic as far as the valuation of this type of learning and its applicability in superior education. The educational experience and the exigencies that the modern world to the educative system brings with himself are the main arguments that guarantee this type of learning.
Nevertheless the lack of appropriate instruments of evaluation and the difficulty to generate a common strategy to everything a group of dicentes are the main critics to this strategy. The discussion still is not settled and the paradigm of "Learning to learn" is every greater time.
What if can affirm with certain security it is that circumstances in which exist this method of learning it offers better results than the other well-known methods. It is in this context in which obtaining to identify clearly the circumstances that favor this strategy turns out to be most important from this analysis.
2007-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3613/1/MPRA_paper_3613.pdf
Fernández Montt, René and Wompner, Fredy (2007): Aprender a aprender. Un método valioso para la educación superior. Published in: Observatorio de la Economía Latinoamericana. (January 2007): pp. 1-10.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3624
2019-09-30T16:28:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3624/
Over-education for the rich, under-education for the poor: a search-theoretic microfoundation
Charlot, Olivier
Decreuse, Bruno
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
J60 - General
I20 - General
This paper studies the efficiency of educational choices in a two sector/two
schooling level matching model of the labour market where a continuum of heterogenous
workers allocates itself between sectors depending on their decision to
invest in education. Individuals differ in ability and schooling cost, the search market
is segmented by education, and there is free entry of new firms in each sector.
Self-selection in education originates composition effects in the distribution of skills
across sectors. This in turn modifies the intensity of job creation, implying the
private and social returns to schooling always differ. Provided that ability and
schooling cost are not too positively correlated, agents with large schooling costs —
the ‘poor’ — select themselves too much, while there is too little self-selection among
the low schooling cost individuals — the ‘rich’. We also show that education should
be more taxed than subsidized when the Hosios condition holds.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3624/1/MPRA_paper_3624.pdf
Charlot, Olivier and Decreuse, Bruno (2006): Over-education for the rich, under-education for the poor: a search-theoretic microfoundation.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3631
2019-09-27T08:27:14Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3631/
Higher education, employers’ monopsony power and the labour share in OECD countries
Daudey, Emilie
Decreuse, Bruno
J60 - General
E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
I20 - General
This paper examines the impact of higher education on the labour share. It is based on the following idea: as education offers adaptability skills, it should reduce employers’ monopsony power and, therefore, increase the labour share. This idea is developed in a two-sector model with search unemployment and wage competition between employers to attract/keep workers. Using panel data for eleven OECD countries, we show that the proportion of higher educated in the population has a significant positive effect on the labour share: typically, an increase of one standard deviation in higher education induces a three point increase in the labour share. The other determinants of the
labour share are compatible with the theoretical model. They include the capital-output ratio (-), minimum to median wage ratio (+), union density (+). We also find that the unemployment rate has a negative and significant impact on the labour share, which, together with the positive impact of higher education, is incompatible with a three-factor model where factors are paid their marginal products.
2006-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3631/1/MPRA_paper_3631.pdf
Daudey, Emilie and Decreuse, Bruno (2006): Higher education, employers’ monopsony power and the labour share in OECD countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3721
2019-09-26T12:00:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3721/
Adaptabilité et complexité: les choix éducatifs et technologiques sont-ils efficaces?
Decreuse, Bruno
Granier, Pierre
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
I20 - General
J60 - General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
European labour markets have known three major changes over the past three decades : the complexification of the technological environment, the growth of general education across the workforce, and rising unemployment. Taken together, do these facts reflect the inefficiency of schooling and technological decisions ? Our answer takes place in a matching model of unemployment in which firms choose technological complexity, and workers educate to improve their adaptability. We show economic policy should focus on the labour market and the education system rather than on firms’ technological choices.
2004-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3721/1/MPRA_paper_3721.pdf
Decreuse, Bruno and Granier, Pierre (2004): Adaptabilité et complexité: les choix éducatifs et technologiques sont-ils efficaces?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4319
2019-09-26T12:12:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4319/
Skill Premiums of Trading in International Markets and Equity: Some Lessons for Pro Poor Education Policies in Developing Countries
Mamoon, Dawood
J01 - Labor Economics: General
I20 - General
F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
The aim of this paper is to examine whether the human capital accumulation, that is a result of increased trade, further exacerbates industrial wage differentials. We find that level of education is one of the key determinants in explaining wage inequalities. Though countries which have a higher level of human capital do well on the inequality front, our results suggest that post liberalization human capital accumulation is associated with higher premiums to skilled labor thus increasing wage gaps. In this context, governments in developing countries may need to increase the mean level of human capital to achieve equity in labor markets.
2007-08-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4319/1/MPRA_paper_4319.pdf
Mamoon, Dawood (2007): Skill Premiums of Trading in International Markets and Equity: Some Lessons for Pro Poor Education Policies in Developing Countries. Published in: Latin American Studies Association (LASA) CD-ROM, No. XXVII International Congress (August 2007)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4626
2019-10-01T08:53:28Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4626/
Determinants of Academic Attainment in the US: a Quantile regression analysis of test scores
Haile, Getinet
Nguyen, Ngoc Anh
I20 - General
We investigate the determinants of high school students’ academic attainment in
maths, reading and science; focusing particularly on possible effects that ethnicity and
family background may have on attainment. Using data from the NELS2000 and
employing quantile regression techniques, we find two important results. First, the
gaps in maths, reading and science test scores among ethnic groups vary across the
conditional quantiles of the measured test scores. Specifically, Blacks and Hispanics
tend to fare worse in their attainment at higher quantiles, particularly in science.
Secondly, the effects of family background factors such as parental education and
father’s occupation also vary across quantiles of the test score distribution. The
implication of these findings is that the commonly made broad distinction on whether
one is from a privileged/disadvantaged ethnic and/or family background may not tell
the whole story that the academic attainment discourse has to note. Interventions
aimed at closing the gap in attainment between Whites and minorities may need to
target higher levels of the test score distribution.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4626/1/MPRA_paper_4626.pdf
Haile, Getinet and Nguyen, Ngoc Anh (2007): Determinants of Academic Attainment in the US: a Quantile regression analysis of test scores.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4869
2019-09-27T04:34:50Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4835:483532
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4869/
Educational Attainment in India: Trends, Patterns and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa
I21 - Analysis of Education
H52 - Government Expenditures and Education
I20 - General
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
P36 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
I28 - Government Policy
Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends, patterns and interacting factors affecting the quantitative and qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been achieved and this has far reaching socio-economic impacts. Enrolments in schools have improved substantially in recent years but the Retention rates are poor, and only a fraction of enrolled students completes even the Primary classes. Completion of Middle and Secondary levels are still lower. Substantial Gender-bias in both access to, and completion of education is a major cause of concern. Wide regional variation exists even within this sub-standard performance of the Basic Education system. While few states have performed moderately, others have done abysmally, and continue to do so. Factors like poverty, presence of a wide child-labour market, absence of assured employment after schooling, and infrastructural problems are identified as responsible for the ills plaguing the elementary education system in India. Providing incentives for attending schools, making the schooling process attractive to the children, streamlining the middle and high school curriculum to make it more vocational and job-oriented, and providing better infrastructure for the schools are some of the policies likely to improve the scenario.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4869/1/MPRA_paper_4869.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2004): Educational Attainment in India: Trends, Patterns and Policy Issues. Published in: Journal of Educational Planning and Administration , Vol. 19, No. 4 (October 2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4871
2019-09-27T16:57:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4871/
Women's Education in India: Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa
I21 - Analysis of Education
H52 - Government Expenditures and Education
I20 - General
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
P36 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
I28 - Government Policy
Education is the basic requirement and the 'Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is built up. This paper tries to analyse the trends, patterns and interacting factors affecting the quantitative and qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years with a special focus on Women's education. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been achieved and this has far reaching socio-economic impacts. Enrolments in schools have improved substantially in recent years but the Retention rates are poor, and only a fraction of enrolled students completes even the Primary classes. Completion of Middle and Secondary levels are still lower. Substantial Gender-bias in both access to, and completion of education is a major cause of concern. Wide regional variation exists even within this sub-standard performance of the Basic Education system. While few states have performed moderately, others have done abysmally, and continue to do so. Factors like poverty, presence of a wide child-labour market, absence of assured employment after schooling, and infrastructural problems are identified as responsible for the ills plaguing the elementary education system in India. Providing incentives for attending schools, making the schooling process attractive to the children, streamlining the middle and high school curriculum to make it more vocational and job-oriented, and providing better infrastructure for the schools are some of the policies likely to improve the scenario.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4871/1/MPRA_paper_4871.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2005): Women's Education in India: Trends, Interlinkages and Policy Issues. Published in: Women’s Education and Development, (ed) JBG Tilak, Gyan Books, New Delhi, 2007 (2007)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5168
2019-09-27T00:09:41Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5168/
A Note on Why Quarter of Birth is Not a Valid Instrument for Educational Attainment
Aliprantis, Dionissi
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
In their justification for using entrance cutoff dates and compulsory education laws as a natural experiment, the authors of Angrist and Krueger (1991) rightly give much attention to the effectiveness of compulsory attendance laws. However, the authors do not give proper attention to the decisions made by parents. If redshirting is commonplace and nonrandom, as it is in the ECLS-K data set, then the identifying assumption of monotonicity does not hold, and their identification scheme does not work. This problem is distinct from those discussed in Bound and Jaeger (2000).
2007-10-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5168/1/MPRA_paper_5168.pdf
Aliprantis, Dionissi (2007): A Note on Why Quarter of Birth is Not a Valid Instrument for Educational Attainment.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7070
2019-10-01T16:46:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7070/
Human Capital, Aggregation, and Growth
Growiec, Jakub
I20 - General
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
O40 - General
The famous Mincer equation regressing log earnings on years of schooling is derived from a linear human capital accumulation equation at the individual level. Even if the cross-sectional Mincer equation holds at the level of individuals, it does not hold at the macro level of countries because aggregation of human capital has to take into account its vintage structure: human capital is embodied in people of different generations whose lifespan is finite. Finiteness of people’s lives imposes also a limit on the potential of human capital accumulation to drive aggregate economic growth. Aggregate human capital accumulation may however become an engine of growth thanks to human capital externalities (knowledge spillovers). We use these findings to revisit the assumptions of the well-known Uzawa–Lucas growth model from an aggregation perspective.
2007-07-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7070/1/MPRA_paper_7070.pdf
Growiec, Jakub (2007): Human Capital, Aggregation, and Growth.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7923
2019-10-10T12:24:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7923/
Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence using State School Entrance Age Laws
Barua, Rashmi
I20 - General
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J20 - General
In this paper, I propose a new framework to study the intertemporal labor supply hypothesis. I use an exogenous source of variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, to study intertemporal labor supply behavior. Employing data from the 1980 US Census and the NLSY, I estimate the effect of a one year delay in school attendance on long run maternal labor supply. To deal with the endogeneity of school attendance age, I exploit the variation in child month of birth and state kindergarten entrance age laws.
IV estimates imply that having a 5 year old enrolled in school increases labor supply measures for married women, with no younger children, by between 7 to 34 percent. In contrast to the results for married mothers, I do not find any statistically significant effect on labor market outcomes for single mothers or mothers of 5 year olds with additional younger children. Further, using a sample of 7 to 10 year olds from the NLSY, I investigate persistence in employment outcomes for a married mother whose child delayed school entry. The estimates suggest that delayed school enrollment has long run implications for maternal labor supply. Results point towards significant intertemporal substitution in labor supply. Rough calculations yield an uncompensated wage elasticity of 0.76 and an intertemporal elasticity of substitution equal to 1.1.
2008-05-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7923/1/MPRA_paper_7923.pdf
Barua, Rashmi (2008): Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence using State School Entrance Age Laws.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8009
2019-09-30T12:11:21Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3135
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8009/
Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh: The Role of Birth Order
Khanam, Rasheda
Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur
I20 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
D10 - General
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor
Using data from Bangladesh, this paper examines how the birth order of a child influences parental decisions to place children in one of the four activities – ‘study only’, ‘study and work’, ‘neither work nor study’ and ‘work only’. The results from the multinomial logit model show that being a first-born child increases the probability of working as the prime activity or at least combining school with work rather than schooling only. The results confirm that later-born children are more likely to be in school than their earlier-born counterparts.
2005-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8009/1/MPRA_paper_8009.pdf
Khanam, Rasheda and Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur (2005): Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh: The Role of Birth Order. Published in: Journal of Biosocial Science , Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2007): pp. 641-657.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9533
2019-09-27T15:23:35Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9533/
Changes in return to higher education in Poland 1998-2005.
Strawinski, Pawel
I20 - General
In the article private rate of return to higher education in the 1998-2005 period is considered. The model is based on a comparative advantage theory. Extended Mincerian wage equation is used to account for a non-random decision to undertake studies at university level. The estimate of private rate of return in Poland is roughly 9%, and it is among the highest in Europe. In addition, the unexpected rise in rate of return is observed. Moreover, positive relationship between graduation and the obtained wages was found. This change has been linked to labour market transformation and Skill Biased Technical Change. Also the influence of financing tertiary education is considered.
2008-06-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9533/1/MPRA_paper_9533.pdf
Strawinski, Pawel (2008): Changes in return to higher education in Poland 1998-2005.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10095
2019-09-28T04:36:44Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3531
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493231
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493238
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10095/
About SES & educational expectations: interrelations in the determination of higher education baccalaureate attainment.
Milagros, Nores
I20 - General
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
I21 - Analysis of Education
I28 - Government Policy
Community colleges and four-year colleges provide two differing alternatives to post secondary education. High school seniors face several options upon high school completion: entering the labor market, entering a community college (for a two-year degree or as a step towards a baccalaureate) or attending a four-year institution. Selection into each of these is clearly not a random process, but one related to previous educational experiences, family characteristics and social class, and educational expectations, among others. Attempting to address this issue of self selection, Rouse (1994 & 1995) explicitly posed the question of the democratization versus diversion effects of community colleges. Her work provides evidence of a rational behavior on the part of two-year college students who respond to price and proximity of such institutions (1994), and of the existence of primarily a democratization effect (1994 & 1995).
This paper proposes a variation on the work by Rouse (1995) and Leigh and Gill (2003) by inquiring into the effect of SES in relation to students’ educational expectations. It builds on these two models. The underlying hypothesis is that expectations are not independent from SES and therefore examining social class differences and their interaction with educational expectations would support the theory of endogeneity between educational expectations and socioeconomic background. We directly control for expectations and interactions between SES and expectations, as well as considering variations to modeling SES and use alternative estimation methods for bounded probabilities (Logit and Biprobit) and compare these to their approaches.
W find the effect of expectations on the probability for middle and middle-high class students’ proved steeper than for the everyone but low SES students. Effect on expected probabilities increasing with SES. These results disappear when estimation methods are improved, using logits and bivariate probit methods, instead of OLS and IVs (explicitly modeling expectations). However, the democratization effect remains significant through all estimations, and strengthens when estimation methods are improved. Out estimates therefore reinforced the findings by Rouse (1995) and Leigh and Gill (2003) of a positive democratization effect that outweighs any diversion effects.
2007-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10095/1/MPRA_paper_10095.pdf
Milagros, Nores (2007): About SES & educational expectations: interrelations in the determination of higher education baccalaureate attainment.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10308
2019-10-01T04:57:13Z
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7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3232
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10308/
Intergenerational interactions in human capital accumulation
Woźny, Łukasz
Growiec, Jakub
I20 - General
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
C73 - Stochastic and Dynamic Games ; Evolutionary Games ; Repeated Games
We analyze an economy populated by a sequence of generations who decide over their consumption levels and the levels of investment in human capital of their immediate descendants. The objective of the paper is to identify the impact of strategic interactions between consecutive generations on the time path of human capital accumulation. To this end, we characterize the Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE) in such an economy and derive the sufficient conditions for its existence and uniqueness. The equilibrium path is computed using a novel constructive approach: extending Reffett and Woźny (2008), we put forward an iterative procedure which converges to the MPE as its limit.
To benchmark our results, we also calculate the optimal human capital accumulation paths for (i) a Ramsey-type model with dynastic optimization, and (ii) a model with joy-of-giving altruism. We prove analytically that human capital accumulation is unambiguously lower in the "strategic" model than in the Ramsey-type dynastic model. We complement our results with a series of numerical exercises.
2008-07-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10308/1/MPRA_paper_10308.pdf
Woźny, Łukasz and Growiec, Jakub (2008): Intergenerational interactions in human capital accumulation.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10577
2019-09-29T12:01:32Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4933:493330
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493130
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10577/
Development Targets and Efficiency in Improving Education and Health Outcomes in Mexico’s Southern States
Jayasuriya, Ruwan
Wodon, Quentin
I30 - General
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
I20 - General
I10 - General
Unlike Mexico as a whole, the south (that is, the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca) may well not reach many of the MDGs. The objective of this paper is to document this assertion and discuss some of the constraints toward reaching the MDGs, as well as some initiatives recently taken to make faster progress. In the first section of the paper, we provide a brief diagnostic regarding how much
progress has already been achieved toward reaching the MDGs in Mexico as a whole and in the south, and in some cases (for example, for poverty) we estimate how much additional progress is likely to be achieved in the years ahead. Thereafter, we focus on the question of whether
improvements in efficiency in the provision of basic services would help in improving outcomes in the south, with a focus on health and education. Finally, we discuss the existing evidence on the impact that programs such as the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación—PROGRESA) have had on progress toward reaching some of these goals.
2003-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10577/1/MPRA_paper_10577.pdf
Jayasuriya, Ruwan and Wodon, Quentin (2003): Development Targets and Efficiency in Improving Education and Health Outcomes in Mexico’s Southern States.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11058
2019-09-26T08:30:05Z
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7375626A656374733D50:5033:503336
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11058/
Transforming University Governance in Ukraine: Collegiums, Bureaucracies, and Political Institutions
Osipian, Ararat
P36 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
I20 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
The massification of higher education in Ukraine is a fact while financing the system is still an issue. External pressures from the Central government and the market require changes in university governance. Europeanization of educational system and adherence to the principles laid down by the Bologna declaration add to already existing challenges faced by universities. This paper states that there is no one right prescription for changing governance in Ukraine’s universities, because they differ in their history, location, culture, organizational structure, student body, faculty, and educational process and content. It proposes different approaches to the different types of the universities, considering universities as collegiums and bureaucracies, and suggests the political system as a viable form of organizational structure for the task of reforming universities.
2008-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11058/1/MPRA_paper_11058.pdf
Osipian, Ararat (2008): Transforming University Governance in Ukraine: Collegiums, Bureaucracies, and Political Institutions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11136
2019-09-26T16:41:02Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3330
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D51:5134:513430
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3333
7375626A656374733D44:4438:443830
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11136/
Energy Power, Digital Infrastructure and Elearning Platforms: Afrrican Experience.
NWAOBI, GODWIN
O30 - General
I20 - General
Q40 - General
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
D80 - General
Information and communication technologies are one of the most pervasive technologies in the world, second only to 'human intelligence' or the human brain. Thus, understanding the factors that determine the diffusion of new technologies across african countries is important to understanding the process of economic development. And whereas, energy is linked with the capacity to perform, the rate at which energy is consumed for the acceleration of the pace of socio-economic activities is regarded as power. Consequently, it will be obvious that the magnitude of the standard of living in any society; the growth and development of such an economy; and its ability to affect the course of events(such as ICT revolution)will be a function of the extent to which its energy(power) resources are developed and utilised. This paper therefore argued for the need to provide assistance in reducing vulnerability and building the capacity of african countries to more widely reap the benefits of the clean development mechanism in areas such as the development of cleaner and renewable energies. Inevitably, this is the critical condition for the sustainability of the emergent e-learning platforms and digital networks in africa.
2008-10-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11136/1/MPRA_paper_11136.pdf
NWAOBI, GODWIN (2008): Energy Power, Digital Infrastructure and Elearning Platforms: Afrrican Experience.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12182
2019-09-28T04:43:06Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12182/
Motivace a příprava studentů oborů cestovního ruchu na su opf v karviné pro potřeby trhu práce
Kostková, Miroslava
Wilczková, Marta
A20 - General
I20 - General
M50 - General
Professional training of students and their job start becomes the most important factor of business competition and enterprise development in the tourism sector. Paper deals with particular outputs of research on students of SU OPF in Karviná, public institutions and prospective employers. Research is linked to international research of tourism study students in Slovakia, Poland,
Serbia and Montenegro, which was focused on professional training of tourism studies students. The papers aim is presentation of the university education experiences in the field of satisfaction of labor market needs.
2007-09-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12182/1/MPRA_paper_12182.pdf
Kostková, Miroslava and Wilczková, Marta (2007): Motivace a příprava studentů oborů cestovního ruchu na su opf v karviné pro potřeby trhu práce. Published in: Academic International Conference - Increasing Competitiveness or Regional, National and International Markets Development - New Challenges (September 2007)
cs
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12235
2019-10-01T09:27:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12235/
Motivace a příprava studentů oborů cestovního ruchu na SU OPF v Karviné pro potřeby trhu práce
Kostková, Miroslava
Wilczková, Marta
I20 - General
M2 - Business Economics
Professional training of students and their job start becomes the most important factor of business competition and enterprise development in the tourism sector. Paper deals with particular outputs of research on students of SU OPF in Karviná, public institutions and prospective employers. Research is linked to international research of tourism study students in Slovakia, Poland,
Serbia and Montenegro, which was focused on professional training of tourism studies students. The papers aim is presentation of the university education experiences in the field of satisfaction of labor market needs.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12235/1/MPRA_paper_12235.pdf
Kostková, Miroslava and Wilczková, Marta (2007): Motivace a příprava studentů oborů cestovního ruchu na SU OPF v Karviné pro potřeby trhu práce. Published in: Proceedings International Conference, Increasing Competitiveness or Regional, National and International Markets Development
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13159
2019-09-28T15:56:36Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4831:483139
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D49:4930
7375626A656374733D44:4438:443839
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493231
7375626A656374733D41:4132:413239
7375626A656374733D44:4438:443830
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13159/
Výuka webových technologií v souvislosti s potřebami podnikatelského prostředí a státní správy
Suchánek, Petr
H19 - Other
I20 - General
I0 - General
D89 - Other
I21 - Analysis of Education
A29 - Other
D80 - General
Internet with all services is integral part of profession and private life of the all community. Web technologies develop very quickly and its usage has an increasing trend. Web technologies are used for various purposes in private business and public administration companies. In both cases web technologies are very important and have a big sense to support of presentation, communication and generally control processes. Today there are quite a number of standards and methods of web interface development. One of main goal of web technologies is communication of external environment and information systems, because information systems are one of fundamental part of all types of companies because of support operational and control processes. With web technologies expansion is growing need to educate new specialists and users. It is target of technical and economic universities. In this respect we have to observe uses of external environment and offer fields of study whose school-leavers find good jobs. Web technologies area is very extensive and always we have to do thorough evaluation what to teach in terms of fields of study in singles types of schools.
2008-05-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13159/1/MPRA_paper_13159.pdf
Suchánek, Petr (2008): Výuka webových technologií v souvislosti s potřebami podnikatelského prostředí a státní správy. Published in: Sborník příspěvků mezinárodní vědecké konference - Čtyři roky členství zemí střední a východní Evropy v Evropské unii (14 May 2008): pp. 704-710.
cs
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13267
2019-09-27T05:40:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13267/
A Holistic Approach to University Curriculum: Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Mansur, Kasim
Jubok, Zainodin
I20 - General
In this era of globalisation, most university curriculum requires new sets of settings and arrangements. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) is no exception. Multi-disciplinary, academic degree-granting programme in UMS have been designed for students and faculties as the basis in ensuring a harmonious existence within and outside the campus. Most of the curriculum in UMS is designed to promote the understanding of universal values and traditions consistent with the quest for global peace and human solidarity. UMS not only provides knowledge, practical experience and skills for scholars and practitioners involved in conflict resolution but also play its role as a peace builder; giving humanitarian and economic assistance. To bring about peace and harmony amongst students of diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, UMS has two components: one is the orientation-training programme for all the new students and the other is the year–round practical training, character building and curriculum development programmes. This paper examines how the forces of globalisation have transformed its curriculum and raised new challenges to our existing institutions in promoting peace and intercultural harmony among students and staff alike.
2009-02-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13267/1/MPRA_paper_13267.pdf
Mansur, Kasim and Jubok, Zainodin (2009): A Holistic Approach to University Curriculum: Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13274
2019-09-26T18:41:04Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13274/
Perception towards the Importance of Education among Muslim Women in Papar, Sabah (Malaysia)
Mansur, Kasim
Abd. Rahim, Dayangku Aslinah
Lim, Beatrice
Mahmud, Roslinah
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
I20 - General
Malaysian women have continued to play an increasingly important role in the national development of the country including greater participation in the economy and labor market. These improvements were made possible by the increasing numbers of females having access to education. Education provides better work opportunities and thus increases the level of income of an individual. Therefore education is perceived to be an important factor in human capital formation. In Islam, every Muslim is required to acquire knowledge as much as possible. Knowledge generates wealth. Thus, Islam condemns idleness, inactivity and poverty are condemned. A Muslim should be actively involved in the pursuit of increasing their knowledge and skill to ensure that their life is not of mere subsistence. This paper will look at the perception towards the importance of education among Muslim women. A total of 189 respondents were interviewed from selected kampongs in the district of Papar, Sabah. The data collected was analyzed and reported using descriptive statistics. About 42.4 percent respondents have obtained a diploma and degree level education. From the study, it is found that 78 percent of the total respondents perceived that education is very important. A total of 47.1 percent strongly agreed that education can influence future income. Essentially, a total of 78.8 per cent agreed that higher level of education leads to a higher level of income.
2009-02-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13274/1/MPRA_paper_13274.pdf
Mansur, Kasim and Abd. Rahim, Dayangku Aslinah and Lim, Beatrice and Mahmud, Roslinah (2009): Perception towards the Importance of Education among Muslim Women in Papar, Sabah (Malaysia).
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13296
2019-09-27T06:36:42Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4933:493330
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493130
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13296/
The Relationships among Mortality Rates, Income and Educational Inequality in Terms of Economic Growth: A Comparison between Turkey and the Euro Area
Çoban, Serap
I30 - General
I20 - General
I10 - General
This study focuses on the relationships among mortality rates, income and educational inequality in terms of economic growth to investigate similarities and differences between the Euro Area and Turkey. For this purpose, income gini as an indicator of income inequality and education gini as an indicator of education inequality are used in the analyses. The relations among the variables are examined with panel data analysis for the Euro Area and with time series analysis for Turkey by using these coefficients and mortality rates for the period of 1980 and 2006. The results show that access to education is more important than the others for Turkey and the Euro Area. There is also a considerable relation between education inequality and mortality rates of infant and adult.
2008-07-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13296/1/MPRA_paper_13296.pdf
Çoban, Serap (2008): The Relationships among Mortality Rates, Income and Educational Inequality in Terms of Economic Growth: A Comparison between Turkey and the Euro Area.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13430
2019-09-29T04:32:15Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3230
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13430/
Perception towards the Importance of Education among Muslim Women in Papar, Sabah (Malaysia)
Mansur, Kasim
Abd. Rahim, Dayangku Aslinah
Lim, Beatrice
Mahmud, Roslinah
I20 - General
J20 - General
Malaysian women have continued to play an increasingly important role in the national development of the country including greater participation in the economy and labor market. These improvements were made possible by the increasing numbers of females having access to education. Education provides better work opportunities and thus increases the level of income of an individual. Therefore education is perceived to be an important factor in human capital formation. In Islam, every Muslim is required to acquire knowledge as much as possible. Knowledge generates wealth. Thus, Islam condemns idleness, inactivity and poverty are condemned. A Muslim should be actively involved in the pursuit of increasing their knowledge and skill to ensure that their life is not of mere subsistence. This paper will look at the perception towards the importance of education among Muslim women. A total of 189 respondents were interviewed from selected kampongs in the district of Papar, Sabah. The data collected was analyzed and reported using descriptive statistics. About 42.4 percent respondents have obtained a diploma and degree level education. From the study, it is found that 78 percent of the total respondents perceived that education is very important. A total of 47.1 percent strongly agreed that education can influence future income. Essentially, a total of 78.8 per cent agreed that higher level of education leads to a higher level of income.
2009-02-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13430/1/MPRA_paper_13430.pdf
Mansur, Kasim and Abd. Rahim, Dayangku Aslinah and Lim, Beatrice and Mahmud, Roslinah (2009): Perception towards the Importance of Education among Muslim Women in Papar, Sabah (Malaysia).
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13431
2019-09-28T08:22:48Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3135
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13431/
Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS): Towards Maximizing the potential of its Human Resource Development (HRD)
Mansur, Kasim
Kasim, Mohd. Yusof
Ahmad, Abd. Razak
I20 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
As strategic education agenda works to prepare competent graduates, human resource development has become crucial for uplifting the internal strength of the university. University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) relatively a ‘young’ university has been engaged in establishing learning interaction among its staffs towards excellence. This paradigm is paramount to the strategic human resource provider as it allows not only the students who will be graduating but the young faculty members and its administrative staffs to excel. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the keys to successful university undertaken by UMS. In less than ten years, the faculty members as well as the administrative staffs manage to position the university at par to that of other established higher learning institutions in the nation. With the establishment of learning interaction, human resource development of UMS have shown some impact for promoting educational excellence among Malaysians. Indeed competent human resource plays an important role to meet the vision and the mission of UMS- strive to excel.
2009-02-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13431/1/MPRA_paper_13431.pdf
Mansur, Kasim and Kasim, Mohd. Yusof and Ahmad, Abd. Razak (2009): Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS): Towards Maximizing the potential of its Human Resource Development (HRD).
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A Holistic Approach to University Curriculum: Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Mansur, Kasim
Jubok, Zainudin
I20 - General
In this era of globalisation, most university curriculum requires new sets of settings and arrangements. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) is no exception. Multi-disciplinary, academic degree-granting programme in UMS have been designed for students and faculties as the basis in ensuring a harmonious existence within and outside the campus. Most of the curriculum in UMS is designed to promote the understanding of universal values and traditions consistent with the quest for global peace and human solidarity. UMS not only provides knowledge, practical experience and skills for scholars and practitioners involved in conflict resolution but also play its role as a peace builder; giving humanitarian and economic assistance. To bring about peace and harmony amongst students of diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, UMS has two components: one is the orientation-training programme for all the new students and the other is the year–round practical training, character building and curriculum development programmes. This paper examines how the forces of globalisation have transformed its curriculum and raised new challenges to our existing institutions in promoting peace and intercultural harmony among students and staff alike.
2009-02-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13433/1/MPRA_paper_13433.pdf
Mansur, Kasim and Jubok, Zainudin (2009): A Holistic Approach to University Curriculum: Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13441
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Effort allocation in tournaments: the effect of gender on academic performance in Italian universities
Castagnetti, Carolina
Rosti, Luisa
I20 - General
G10 - General
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
We consider the academic performance of Italian university graduates and their labor market position 3 years after graduation. Our data confirm the common finding that female students outperform male students in academia but are overcome in the labor market. Assuming that academic competition is fair and that individual talent is equally distributed by gender, we suggest that the gender gap evident in degree scores is endogenously due to the greater effort exerted by female students. We find that females face a greater increase in labor market returns from signalling through academic performance. This higher prize explains the greater effort exerted by females and the higher probability of winning the academic competition.
2007-02-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13441/1/MPRA_paper_13441.pdf
Castagnetti, Carolina and Rosti, Luisa (2007): Effort allocation in tournaments: the effect of gender on academic performance in Italian universities.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13621
2019-09-26T10:34:27Z
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Factors Affecting Students' Performance
Harb, Nasri
El-Shaarawi, Ahmed
A20 - General
I20 - General
Determinants of students' performance have been the subject of ongoing debate among educators, academics, and policy makers. There have been many studies that sought to examine this issue and their findings point out to hard work, previous schooling, parents’ education, family income and self motivation as factors that have a significant effect on the students GPA.
Most of those studies have focused on students' performance in the U.S. and Europe. However, since cultural differences may play a role in shaping the factors that affect students' performance, it is very important to examine those relevant factors to the UAE society. The aim of this study is to investigate the socio-economic characteristics of students of the College of Business and Economics-UAEU in relation to these students' performance and taking into account variables pertaining to the UAE Society. Using a sample of 864 CBE student and regression analysis, our results show that the most important factor that affects student's performance is the student's competence in English. Besides competence in English, students who participate in class discussion and those on leave outperform other students. The factors that negatively affect student's performance the most are missing too many lectures and living in crowded household. The results also show that non-national students outperform national students and female students outperform their male counterpart.
2006-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13621/1/MPRA_paper_13621.pdf
Harb, Nasri and El-Shaarawi, Ahmed (2006): Factors Affecting Students' Performance. Published in: Journal of Business Education , Vol. 82, No. 5 (2007): pp. 282-290.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13768
2019-09-27T05:09:06Z
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ICT in Education: A Study of Public Health Education
Kannan, Srinivasan
I20 - General
Modern technologies such as Information Communication Technologies have helped many of the development sectors. One of the sectors it has lot of scope to develop is the Education. It is also evident from the experience that the benefits of these technologies have contributed much in the area of healthcare. However, these benefits come with few limitations. A technology is useful only if (a) the systems are designed keeping the user perspective mind, (b) if the users are trained on those systems, (c) users recognize the need for a system and (d) users feel there is a need for such system. Developing a system for an application does not necessarily lead to usage. Many developments ended without giving any benefit to society. For the better usage and the benefits, one has to have a commitment to promote the system among the appropriate users by demonstrating the benefits of such systems. This further discouraged by the restrictions imposed by the IPR regime. There is some relief now due to the popularization of the free software movements. This paper is an effort to highlight the benefits of such systems in public health education with special reference to the open source online tools. Author is a faculty of a Public Health school teaching health management course to the students of public health. The paper addresses the importance of ICT systems in training the public health professionals. It also discusses the benefits and limitations of such system. The present system is a complementary teaching method to the existing classroom teaching.
2009-02-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13768/1/MPRA_paper_13768.pdf
Kannan, Srinivasan (2009): ICT in Education: A Study of Public Health Education.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14375
2019-09-28T05:23:01Z
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Does Education Pay off in Turkey? An Ordered Logit Approach
Oksuzler, Oktay
I20 - General
C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions
C25 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions ; Probabilities
Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of education on individual income in
Turkey. To this end, Mincerian (1974) earning equation is estimated in which income
as a function of education, age, square of age and sex. Since all of the variables are in
the form discrete choices, an ordered logit model is employed. This model lets to
calculate probabilities of achieving higher income given education levels that are not
provided by the earlier studies of Tansel (1994), Dayıoglu and Kasnakoglu (1997) and
Ozcan et al.. (2003). The empirical findings show that as education level increases, the
probability of achieving higher income raises notably. The finding of highest return for
university education for both sexes supports the view; education should be considered
as an investment and individuals should bear the cost of it to some extent.
2008-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14375/1/MPRA_paper_14375.pdf
Oksuzler, Oktay (2008): Does Education Pay off in Turkey? An Ordered Logit Approach. Published in: The Empirical Economics Letters , Vol. 7(2), (February 2008): pp. 213-221.
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Elegance with substance
Colignatus, Thomas
A20 - General
I20 - General
P16 - Political Economy
Subject: The education in mathematics, its failure and costs, and how to redesign this market. The political economy of mathematics education.
Method: We do not require statistics to show that mathematics education fails but can look at the math itself. Criticism on mathematics itself can only succeed if it results into better mathematics. Similarly for the didactics of mathematics. Proof is provided that the mathematics that is taught often is cumbersome and illogical. It is rather impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical.
Basic observations: We would presume that school mathematics would be clear and didactically effective. A closer look shows that it is cumbersome and illogical. (1) This is illustrated here with some twenty examples from a larger stock of potential topics. (2) It appears possible to formulate additional shopping lists for improvement on both content and didactic method. (3) Improvements appear possible with respect to mathematics itself, on logic, voting theory, trigonometry and calculus. The latter two improvements directly originate from a didactic approach and it is amazing that they have not been noted earlier by conventional mathematics. (4) What is called mathematics thus is not really mathematics. Pupils and students are psychologically tortured and withheld from proper mathematical insight and competence. Spatial sense and understanding, algebraic sense and competence, logical sense and the competence in reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life of pupils and students in their formative years.
Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math, where mathematics must be simpler of necessity, but it arises because of the failure of mathematicians to deliver. The failure can be traced to a deep rooted tradition and culture in mathematics. Didactics requires a mindset that is sensitive to empirical observation which is not what mathematicians are trained for. Psychology will play a role in the filtering out of those students who will later become mathematicians. Their tradition and culture conditions mathematicians to see what they are conditioned to see.
Higher order observations: When mathematicians deal with empirical issues then problems arise in general. The failure in education is only one example in a whole range. The stock market crash in 2008 was caused by many factors, including mismanagement by bank managers and failing regulation, but also by mathematicians and “rocket scientists” mistaking abstract models for reality (Mandelbrot & Taleb 2009). Another failure arises in the modelling of the economics of the environment where an influx of mathematical approaches causes too much emphasis on elegant form and easy notions of risk and insufficient attention to reality, statistics and real risk (Tinbergen & Hueting 1991). Improvements in mathematics itself appear possible in logic and voting theory, with consequences for civic discourse and democracy, where the inspiration for the improvement comes from realism (Colignatus 2007). Economics as a science suffers from bad math and the maltreatment of its students – and most likely this is also true for the other sciences. Professors and teachers of mathematics – or at least 99.9% of them – apparently cannot diagnose their collective failure themselves and apparently ‘blame the victims’ for not understanding mathematics. The other scientific professions are advised to verify these points.
Higher order analysis: Application of economic theory helps to understand that the markets for education and ideas tend to be characterized by monopolistic competition and natural monopolies. Regulations are important. Apparently the industry of mathematics education currently is not adequately regulated. The regulation of financial markets is a hot topic nowadays but the persistent failure of mathematics education would rather be high on the list as well. It will be important to let the industry become more open to society. Without adjustment of regulations at the macro-level it is rather useless to try to improve mathematics education and didactics at the micro level. Mathematical tradition and culture creates a mindset, and mathematicians are like lemmings that are set to go into one direction. Trying to micro-manage change with some particular lemmings will not help in any way. An example layout is provided how the industry could be regulated.
Conundrum: Mathematicians might be the first to recognize the improvements in mathematics and didactics presented here. Mathematical tradition clearly is an improvement from alchemy and astrology. Most people will also tend to let the professors and teachers decide on whether these items are improvements indeed. It is tempting to conclude that the system then works: an improvement is proposed, it is recognized, and eventually will be implemented. This approach however takes a risk with respect to potential future changes. With the present failure and analysis on the cause we should rather be wary of that risk. We better regulate the industry of mathematics education in robust manner. The mathematical examples presented here can be understood in principle by anyone with a highschool level of mathematics. They are targetted to explain didactically to a large audience how big the failure in the education in mathematics actually is.
Advice: The economic consequences are huge. National parliaments are advised to do something about this, starting with an enquiry. Parents are advised to write their representative. The professional associations of mathematics and economics are advised to write their parliament in support of that enquiry.
2009-05-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15173/1/MPRA_paper_15173.pdf
Colignatus, Thomas (2009): Elegance with substance.
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Elegance with substance
Colignatus, Thomas
A20 - General
I20 - General
P16 - Political Economy
National parliaments around the world are advised to each have their own national parliamentary enquiry into the education in mathematics and into what is called ‘mathematics’. Current mathematics namely fails and causes extreme social costs.
The failure in mathematics and math education can be traced to a deep rooted tradition and culture in mathematics itself. Mathematicians are trained for abstract theory but when they teach then they meet with real life pupils and students. Didactics requires a mindset that is sensitive to empirical observation which is not what mathematicians are basically trained for.
When mathematicians deal with empirical issues then problems arise in general. The stock market crash in 2008 was caused by many factors, including mismanagement by bank managers and failing regulation, but also by mathematicians and ‘rocket scientists’ mistaking abstract models for reality (Mandelbrot & Taleb 2009). Another failure arises in the modelling of the economics of the environment where an influx of mathematical approaches causes too much emphasis on elegant form and easy notions of risk but insufficient attention to reality, statistics and real risk (Tinbergen & Hueting 1991). Errors by mathematicians on realistic assumptions have important consequences for civic discourse and democracy as well (Colignatus 2007). The failure in math education is only one example in a whole range.
The discussion of mathematics in this book can be understood by anyone with a decent command of highschool mathematics. While school math should be clear and didactically effective, a closer look shows that it is cumbersome and illogical. (1) This is illustrated with some twenty examples from a larger stock of potential topics. (2) Additional shopping lists for improvement on both content and didactic method can be formulated as well. (3) Improvements appear possible with respect to mathematics itself, on logic, voting theory, trigonometry and calculus. (4) What is called mathematics thus is not really mathematics. Pupils and students are psychologically tortured and withheld from proper mathematical insight and competence. Other subjects, like the education in economics, biology or physics, suffer as well.
Application of economic theory helps us to understand that markets for education and ideas tend to be characterized by monopolistic competition and natural monopolies. Regulations then are important. Apparently the industry of mathematics education currently is not adequately regulated. The regulation of financial markets is a hot topic nowadays but the persistent failure of mathematics education should rather be high on the list as well. It will be important to let the industry become more open to society.
When you want to understand the underlying historical processes that cause the current state of the world then this is the book for you. Mathematics education must be tackled, both as a noble goal of itself and for the larger causes.
2009-05-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15676/1/MPRA_paper_15676.pdf
Colignatus, Thomas (2009): Elegance with substance. Published in: Dutch University Press No. ISBN 978 90 3610 138 7 (12 June 2009): pp. 1-112.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16421
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International Graduate Student Life: Building Grounded Theory
Orkodashvili, Mariam
A23 - Graduate
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
The paper analyses qualitative data on the topic of ‘international graduate student life’, and especially on the cultural and academic adaptation processes that graduates go through in a new environment. The paper describes and discusses the process of the work on the data. It deals with the theories and hypotheses that were generated during the process of analysis. It also describes some limitations and complexities that were encountered while working with the data and different computer packages.
The report also tries to put the main story and the findings in the wider context of the existing sociological literature on the present topic of adaptation, managing change and intercultural relations between the representatives of different nationalities.
2001-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16421/1/MPRA_paper_16421.pdf
Orkodashvili, Mariam (2001): International Graduate Student Life: Building Grounded Theory.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16982
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Education, Signaling, and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Economy
Yuki, Kazuhiro
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
I20 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
Many empirical works suggest that education has a positive effect on earnings not only because it raises human capital but also because it functions as a signal when employers have incomplete information on employees' skills.
The signaling role could have important consequences on the dynamics of education, wages, and wage distribution when there exist intergenerational linkages in educational decisions. This paper examines the dynamic effects in an economy where education has the dual roles and some fraction of individuals is credit constrained from taking education. In particular, it investigates how the number of educated individuals, the importance of the signaling value of education, and the wage inequality between educated and uneducated workers change over time in such economy, and
compares the dynamics with those when education does not function as a signal. It also examines whether the signaling role leads to higher aggregate consumption or not in the long run.
2009-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16982/1/MPRA_paper_16982.pdf
Yuki, Kazuhiro (2009): Education, Signaling, and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Economy.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16988
2019-09-28T02:15:34Z
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"A serious business with plenty to play for: The PC, console and mobile gaming sector"
Heng, Stefan
I20 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
K14 - Criminal Law
A10 - General
Not only the gamescom fair in Cologne and the games convention fair in Leipzig have recently shown that the often ridiculed games industry (PC, console and mobile gaming) has long since matured into a serious economic sector on a par with the film industry.
Since the days of TV games the gaming sector has been one of the fastest-growing areas of the media business.
The process of change within the sector continues apace, driven by technical, societal and economic factors.
This change is focused on the distribution channels, the revenue models, the development processes and the target demographics.
2009-08-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16988/1/MPRA_paper_16988.pdf
Heng, Stefan (2009): "A serious business with plenty to play for: The PC, console and mobile gaming sector". Published in: E-conomics No. 72 (28 August 2009): pp. 1-12.
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Is there any relationship between Environmental Quality Index, Human Development Index and Economic Growth? Evidences from Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda
Chakraborty, Debashis
Q50 - General
E21 - Consumption ; Saving ; Wealth
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q23 - Forestry
C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation
I20 - General
I0 - General
O10 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
Q24 - Land
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q25 - Water
O40 - General
I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q0 - General
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
I10 - General
Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population on natural resources. Under this backdrop, the current study attempts to analyze the relationships among Environmental Quality (EQ), Human Development (HD) and Economic Growth (EG) for 14 major Indian States during post liberalisation period (1991-2004). Further, for understanding the changes in EQ with the advancement of economic liberalisation, the analysis is carried out by dividing the sample period into two: Period A (1990–1996) and Period B (1997–2004). For both the sub-periods, 63 environmental indicators have been clustered under eight broad environmental groups and an overall index of EQ has been constructed using the HDI methodology. The EQ ranks of the States exhibit variation over time, implying that environment has both spatial and temporal dimensions. Ranking of the States across different environmental criteria (groups) show that different States possess different strengths and weaknesses in managing various aspects of EQ. The HDI rankings of the States for the two periods are constructed by the HDI technique following the National Human Development Report 2001 methodology. We attempt to test for the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis through multivariate OLS regression models, which indicate presence of non-linear relationship between several individual environmental groups and per capita net state domestic product. The relationship between EQ and economic growth however does not become clear from the current study. The regression results involving individual environmental groups and HDI score indicate a slanting N-shaped relationship. The paper concludes that individual States should adopt environmental management practices based on their local (at the most disaggregated level) environmental information. Moreover, since environmental sustainability and human well-being are complementary to each other, individual States should attempt to translate the economic growth to human well-being.
2009-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17207/1/MPRA_paper_17207.pdf
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda and Chakraborty, Debashis (2009): Is there any relationship between Environmental Quality Index, Human Development Index and Economic Growth? Evidences from Indian States.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17994
2019-09-28T05:20:58Z
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The “Sheepskin Effects” of Canadian Credentials
Hui, Taylor Shek-wai
C50 - General
I20 - General
J01 - Labor Economics: General
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
This paper re-examines the “sheepskin effects” of educational credentials in Canada using data from the 1996 Census and Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. I found that the estimated credential effects are sensitive to specifications. Regressions analysis in the standard model may not be adequate to control for the workers’ productivity difference unrelated to the credentials. Particularly, the misspecification of the earnings equation and pooling sample might introduce biases into the estimates of credential effects. With carefully constructed comparison groups, the estimated sheepskin effects of a Bachelor’s degree are smaller than that reported in Ferrar and Riddell (2002).
2004-11-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17994/1/MPRA_paper_17994.pdf
Hui, Taylor Shek-wai (2004): The “Sheepskin Effects” of Canadian Credentials.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17995
2019-09-28T16:37:16Z
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The US/Canada Difference in Postsecondary Educational Choice
Hui, Taylor Shek-wai
A22 - Undergraduate
J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials
I20 - General
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
This paper attempts to tackle the puzzle of why more Canadians choose community colleges over universities than their American counterparts, when previous research has suggested that the return to community college education is low in Canada. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for Canada and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for the US, I estimate returns to education with a trinomial selection correction using various instruments. I simulate the educational choices of Canadians who face American returns to education, and vice versa. I found that Canadians have a relatively strong incentive to choose community colleges if occupational choices are controlled for. The second finding is that Canadian universities and colleges specialize in different types of human capital. Also, my analysis confirms that the elasticity of educational attainment to tuition and fees is low. Finally, the self-selection processes in the two countries are different. More able Americans have higher educational attainment while more productive Canadians prefer going to universities but not community colleges.
2004-11-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Hui, Taylor Shek-wai (2004): The US/Canada Difference in Postsecondary Educational Choice.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18012
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Character, knowledge and skills in ancient Greek education: Lessons for today’s policy makers
Bitros, George C.
Karayiannis, Anastasios D.
I20 - General
N30 - General, International, or Comparative
B11 - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)
The efforts to alleviate poverty by increasing social budgets have failed everywhere in the world and now the question is what else can be done to support those that are left behind. In this paper we search for illumination in the approaches to education that Athens and Sparta adopted in the peak of their power. Our findings indicate that both city-states confronted their challenges successfully because they managed to mold into the character of their citizens “ethos” compatible with the integrity of their institutions. On this ground, and given that “knowledge” and “skills” as engines of economic growth are in the interest of the individuals to accumulate, we conclude that an alternative policy to check the trend towards extreme individualism is to place priority on the character of citizens and pursue it through appropriate restructuring of educational curricula in the direction suggested by ancient Athens.
2009-10-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18012/1/MPRA_paper_18012.pdf
Bitros, George C. and Karayiannis, Anastasios D. (2009): Character, knowledge and skills in ancient Greek education: Lessons for today’s policy makers.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19468
2019-10-01T23:35:43Z
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Does University Research Improve University Teaching?
James, Simon
A22 - Undergraduate
A20 - General
I20 - General
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) generated a natural experiment in which UK universities strove to achieve the best results they could for their research and teaching. A review of the two exercises and a discussion of the relationship between university teaching and research appear in James (2005). This paper presents an analysis of the results for departments in Management and Economics.
2008-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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James, Simon (2008): Does University Research Improve University Teaching? Published in: Higher Education Academy Conference (2 July 2008): pp. 1-11.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19982
2019-09-29T11:25:01Z
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Highlights of today’s scientific research and its funding
Scarlat, Valentin
I20 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
On 18 December 2006, the Council adopted decisions establishing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community (EC) for research and technological development for the period 2007 to 2013, and the FP7 for nuclear research activities (Euratom) for 2007 to 2011. The Council also adopted a regulation laying down the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities in actions under FP7-EC and for the dissemination of research results. The programme places greater emphasis than in the past on research that is relevant to the needs of European industry, to help it compete internationally, and develop its role as a world leader in certain sectors. The programme will also for the first time provide support for the best in European investigator-driven research, with the creation of a European Research Council. Focus will be on excellence throughout the programme, a requirement if it is to play its role in developing Europe's global competitiveness. Another priority will be to make participation in the programme simpler and easier, through measures addressing the procedures, plus a rationalisation of instruments.
2009-09-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Scarlat, Valentin (2009): Highlights of today’s scientific research and its funding. Published in: Sustainable development through education research and innovation (28 September 2009): pp. 199-205.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20331
2019-09-28T17:48:30Z
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence
Falch, Torberg
Fischer, Justina AV
H40 - General
I20 - General
H20 - General
C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
2010-01-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Falch, Torberg and Fischer, Justina AV (2010): Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21184
2019-09-27T09:11:31Z
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Analysing demand for primary education: Slum dwellers of Kolkata
Husain, Zakir
I20 - General
C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
The low level of literacy within the Muslim community is traditionally explained in terms of the conservative values characterising Muslim society. Based on a field survey of slum dwellers in selected areas of Kolkata, this article argues that economic factors and uncertainties in the labour market combine to create a different perception of the cost-benefits of education. It also examines other facets of educational decisions: its cost and components, the choice of educational institutions and the preferred medium of instruction, presence of gender bias, and the relation between dropouts and child labour.
2005-01-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21184/1/MPRA_paper_21184.pdf
Husain, Zakir (2005): Analysing demand for primary education: Slum dwellers of Kolkata. Published in: Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. XL, No. 2 (8 January 2005): pp. 137-147.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21196
2019-10-13T15:20:50Z
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Desigualdade salarial e educacao na Lima Metropolitana 1970-1984
Rodriguez, Jose
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
I20 - General
It assesses the impact of the expansion of educational levels on the distribution of wages between 1970 and 1984 in Metropolitan Lima in Peru. For this purpose it uses a dynamic decomposition of the second Theil's concentration index using data from household surveys. The results suggest that the effects depend on the type of educational expansion and do not necessarily contribute to improving the distribution of wages.
1991-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Rodriguez, Jose (1991): Desigualdade salarial e educacao na Lima Metropolitana 1970-1984. Published in: Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico , Vol. 21, No. 3 (December 1991): pp. 575-604.
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Impact of Higher Education on Economic Growth of Pakistan
Aziz, Babar
Khan, Tasneem
Aziz, Shumaila
I20 - General
This paper investigates the returns of higher education on economic growth of Pakistan from 1972 to 2008 through the application of Cobb-Douglas production function. The prime objective of the study is to identify and establish a link between the higher education and economic growth of Pakistan. For this purpose the impact of higher education enrollment on economic growth is analyzed. An attempt is made, in this study, to analyze the educational trends, the strategies and challenges for higher educational and its role in overall development in the country. Furthermore, the study also delves that a well educated labor force appears to significantly affluence the economic growth. The research also provides some implications for the policy purpose to develop higher education so as to curb the use of expatriate manpower in different sectors of the economy.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22912/2/MPRA_paper_22912.pdf
Aziz, Babar and Khan, Tasneem and Aziz, Shumaila (2008): Impact of Higher Education on Economic Growth of Pakistan. Published in: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities , Vol. 6, No. 2 (2008): pp. 15-29.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23048
2019-10-01T16:48:24Z
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Se Puede Mejorar el Sistema de Ingreso a las Universidades Chilenas? El uso del ranking en la Universidad Catolica de Chile, Universidad de Chile y Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Meneses, Francisco/F
Parra, Alvaro/P
Zenteno, Luis/L
C10 - General
I20 - General
The present document resumes the work of tree papers regarding college selection system. These investigations evaluate the use of the “high school ranking” of students as a college selection variable. The authors evaluate the performance of students in the University of Chile, Catholic University of Chile and University of Santiago. They found positive evidence regarding the use of the ranking as a selection variable, and conclude that universities could capture better students.
2005-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Meneses, Francisco/F and Parra, Alvaro/P and Zenteno, Luis/L (2005): Se Puede Mejorar el Sistema de Ingreso a las Universidades Chilenas? El uso del ranking en la Universidad Catolica de Chile, Universidad de Chile y Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
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2019-09-27T04:02:50Z
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A DEA approach for measuring university departments’ efficiency
Tzeremes, Nickolaos
Halkos, George
I20 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
C67 - Input-Output Models
C60 - General
This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to determine the performance levels of 16 departments of a public owned university. Particularly, the constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) models have been applied alongside with bootstrap techniques in order to determine accurate performance estimates. The study illustrates how the recent developments in efficiency analysis and statistical inference can be applied when evaluating institutional performance issues. The results reveal the existence of misallocation of resources or/and inefficient application of departments’ policy development.
2010
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Tzeremes, Nickolaos and Halkos, George (2010): A DEA approach for measuring university departments’ efficiency.
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Romanian public marketing in terms of necessity, collaboration and mix
Grigorescu, Adriana
M31 - Marketing
I20 - General
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
The paper carries out a short literature review on public sector and public marketing terms. The findings of the paper’s study shows that the Romanian public sector should give more importance to marketing activities, as 87% of the respondents sustained when asked about their necessity. Within a public institution, the marketing specialists should cooperate with research& development, sales and financial departments. The study results reaffirm the importance of the 4 P of the marketing mix when making an offer, and place them on the top positions.
2010-05-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Grigorescu, Adriana (2010): Romanian public marketing in terms of necessity, collaboration and mix. Published in: Analele Universităţii Ovidius Constanţa. Seria: Știinţe Economice ISSN 1582 – 9383 , Vol. Volumu, No. issue 1 (2010): pp. 72-76.
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2019-09-27T04:25:10Z
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Gender disparities in completing school education in India: Analyzing regional variations
Husain, Zakir
I20 - General
C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions
Is gender disparity greater in North India? This paper seeks to answer this question by examining gender differences in probability of completing school education across regions in India. A Gender Disparity Index is calculated using National Sample Survey Organization unit level data from the 61st Round and regional variations in this index analyzed to examine the hypothesis that gender disparity is greater in the North, comparative to the rest of India. This is followed by an econometric exercise using a logit model to confirm the results of the descriptive analysis after controlling for socio-economic correlates of completing school education. Finally, the Fairlie decomposition method is used to estimate the contribution of explanatory variables in explaining differences in probabilities of completing schooling across regions. The results reveal that gender disparities are greater in North India, for total and rural population, and in Eastern India, for urban population. However, the ‘residual effect’ after accounting for effect of explanatory variables - often referred to as ‘discrimination effect’, as opposed to disparity – is higher in Eastern India, irrespective of the place of residence.
2010-09-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25748/1/MPRA_paper_25748.pdf
Husain, Zakir (2010): Gender disparities in completing school education in India: Analyzing regional variations.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26194
2019-09-26T09:46:03Z
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Effort allocation in tournaments: the effect of gender on academic performance in Italian universities
Castagnetti, Carolina
Rosti, Luisa
I20 - General
G10 - General
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
We consider the academic performance of Italian university graduates and their labor market position 3 years after graduation. Our data confirm the common finding that female students outperform male students in academia but are overcome in the labor market. Assuming that academic competition is fair and that individual talent is equally distributed by gender, we suggest that the gender gap evident in degree scores is endogenously due to the greater effort exerted by female students. We find that females face a greater increase in labor market returns from signalling through academic performance. This higher prize explains the greater effort exerted by females and the higher probability of winning the academic competition.
2007-02-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26194/1/MPRA_paper_26194.pdf
Castagnetti, Carolina and Rosti, Luisa (2007): Effort allocation in tournaments: the effect of gender on academic performance in Italian universities. Published in: Economics of Education Review No. 28 (2009): pp. 357-369.
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2019-10-06T04:30:23Z
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Experiments to generate new data about school choice
Berg, Nathan
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
I20 - General
Behavioral/experimental economics is poised to enter a new phase in its relatively brief intellectual history, moving beyond empirical tests of standard behavioral assumptions in the social sciences to the problem of designing improved institutions that are tuned to fit real-world behavior. For this reason and others, it is worthwhile to analyze the potential value that new experiments could provide to the school choice debates by generating new data to settle longstanding questions.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26367/1/MPRA_paper_26367.pdf
Berg, Nathan (2009): Experiments to generate new data about school choice. Published in: Journal of School Choice , Vol. 3, No. 4 (2009): pp. 397-413.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26371
2019-10-07T16:33:20Z
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Illusive competition in school reform: Comment on Merrifield's "Imagined evidence and false imperatives"
Berg, Nathan
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
I20 - General
Merrifield (2009) provides a useful polemic about the sad state of data analysis too frequently encountered in the school choice literature. The available data come mostly from limited policy experiments with only modest amounts of choice and competition. These data are then misapplied in debates about more dramatic shifts to new systems to supply educational services that aim for large expansions of choice and competition. It is difficult to cleanly separate theoretical priors from empirical evidence. I contend that it is possible to make a stronger empirical case for dramatic school reform. But doing so would require dealing with six potential pitfalls based on economic theory that might arise when attempting to move to school systems more reliant on private providers of educational services. Given the difficulty of policy experiments, this is a high evidential bar, and may leave us stuck in an unfortunate status quo, as Merrifield suggests. More detailed definitions of competition together with bold, new empirical evidence are clear priorities for advancing debates over school reform, and should be core elements of prescriptive policy analysis.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Berg, Nathan (2009): Illusive competition in school reform: Comment on Merrifield's "Imagined evidence and false imperatives". Published in: Journal of School Choice , Vol. 3, No. 3 (2009): pp. 290-306.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26443
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The Faculty Flutie Factor: Does Football Performance Affect a University’s US News and World Report Peer Assessment Score?
Mulholland, Sean
Tomic, Aleksandar
Sholander, Samuel
I20 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
Analyzing the peer assessment portion of the US News and World Report’s college rankings, we find that administrators and faculty rate more highly universities whose football team receives a greater number of votes in either the final Associated Press or Coaches Poll. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, our estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in the number of votes received in either the Associated Press or USA Today Coaches’ Football Poll is
viewed as positively as a forty point increase in a school’s SAT score at the 75th percentile.
2010-09-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Mulholland, Sean and Tomic, Aleksandar and Sholander, Samuel (2010): The Faculty Flutie Factor: Does Football Performance Affect a University’s US News and World Report Peer Assessment Score?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26698
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Higher education decision making and decision support systems
Bresfelean, Vasile Paul
Ghisoiu, Nicolae
D70 - General
A22 - Undergraduate
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
The authors illustrate several issues in decision support and decision support systems (DSS), state of the art research in these fields, and also their own studies in designing a higher education DSS. The final section contains our contribution in outlining the modules of the DSS, involving the present systems and databases of FSEGA and UBB, results and activities belonging to FSEGA students, teaching and research staff, to assist decisions for all the actors implicated in the processes, in various specific situations.
2009-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Bresfelean, Vasile Paul and Ghisoiu, Nicolae (2009): Higher education decision making and decision support systems. Published in: WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education , Vol. 7, No. 2 (February 2010): pp. 43-52.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:27629
2019-10-02T04:31:20Z
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The effect of education on migration: Evidence from school reform
Böckerman, Petri
Haapanen, Mika
I20 - General
J10 - General
J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
A polytechnic, higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all Finnish regions. We implement instrumental variables estimators that exploit the exogenous variation in the regional availability of polytechnic education together with matriculation exam scores. Our IV results show that polytechnic graduates have a higher migration probability than those of vocational college graduates. However, a master’s degree did not increase migration propensity in comparison with a polytechnic degree. We also find that an increase in the availability of polytechnic education did not reduce migration.
2010-12-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27629/1/MPRA_paper_27629.pdf
Böckerman, Petri and Haapanen, Mika (2010): The effect of education on migration: Evidence from school reform.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28518
2019-09-28T06:53:05Z
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El desempeño de los estudiantes de secundaria en los colegios de Fe y Alegría en Colombia: una cuestión de Fe y/o Alegría?
Parra Osorio, Juan Carlos
Wodon, Quentin
I20 - General
H43 - Project Evaluation ; Social Discount Rate
L31 - Nonprofit Institutions ; NGOs ; Social Entrepreneurship
Fe y Alegría is a catholic network of schools that started operations in Colombia in 1971, and in 2009 served more than 72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegría secondary schools in Colombia using test scores for Spanish and mathematics, as well as detailed information on the characteristics of the household to which students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegría schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the sample. However, Fe y Alegría schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls are included for student background, Fe y Alegría schools actually often perform as well and in some cases better than other schools for mathematics and Spanish, thus partially reversing the previous finding.
2011-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Parra Osorio, Juan Carlos and Wodon, Quentin (2011): El desempeño de los estudiantes de secundaria en los colegios de Fe y Alegría en Colombia: una cuestión de Fe y/o Alegría? Published in: Escuelas religiosas en América Latina: estudios de caso sobre Fe y Alegría, World Bank, Washington DC (edited by Juan Carlos Parra Osorio and Quentin Wodon) (February 2011)
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Comment on David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2008): “Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence”
Hlavac, Marek
I12 - Health Behavior
I20 - General
I10 - General
In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education are associated with lower adult mortality rates, lower frequencies of self-reported incidence of chronic and acute diseases, better functioning and mental health, as well as with lower reports of lost work days or days spent in bed. In addition, they find that more education is associated with better health behaviors: Better-educated individuals smoke less, engage in less heavy drinking, wear seatbelts more often, and consume more preventive care. This comments discusses selected strengths and weaknesses of Cutler and Lleras-Muney's study.
2011-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Hlavac, Marek (2011): Comment on David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2008): “Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence”.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28727
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Economic Growth and The Quality of Human Capital
Laabas, Belkacem
Weshah, Razzak
I20 - General
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
O40 - General
E10 - General
We calibrate an endogenous growth model to study the effect of the quality of human capital on productivity growth in a sample of thirty developed and developing countries for the period 1980 to 2007. We measure quality of human capital by relative cognitive skills. These are country scores in mathematics and science reported in Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMMS). The correlation between the relative quality of human capital and productivity growth is evident in the data for the developed countries. And, cross-country differences in the quality of human capital for a number of developed countries are highly positively associated with cross-country differences in productivity growth. The picture is significantly different for the developing countries in our sample.
2011-02-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28727/1/MPRA_paper_28727.pdf
Laabas, Belkacem and Weshah, Razzak (2011): Economic Growth and The Quality of Human Capital.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29150
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A Roy Model of Social Interactions
Cicala, Steve
Fryer, Roland G.
Spenkuch, Jörg L.
I20 - General
J01 - Labor Economics: General
We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with higher-achieving peers depends on where in the ability distribution she falls and the effective wages that clear the social market. In this sense our model may rationalize the widely varying estimates of peer effects found in the literature without casting group behavior as an externality in agents’ objective functions. Second, since a student’s comparative advantage is typically unobserved, the theory implies that important determinants of individual choice operate through the error term and may, even under random assignment, be correlated with the regressor of interest. As a result, linear in means estimates of peer effects are not identified. We show that the model’s testable prediction in the presence of this confounding issue–an individual’s ordinal rank predicts her behavior, ceteris paribus–is borne out in two data sets
2011-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29150/1/MPRA_paper_29150.pdf
Cicala, Steve and Fryer, Roland G. and Spenkuch, Jörg L. (2011): A Roy Model of Social Interactions.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29667
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Job Satisfaction: A Challenging Area of Research in Education
kainth, Dr .Gursharan Singh
Kaur, Mrs. Gurinder
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
D80 - General
Indian Education Commission (1966) describes teacher as one of the most important
factors contributing to the national development. He is the pivot around which all the
educational programs, such as curriculum, syllabus, textbooks, evaluation, etc.,
rotate. The best system of education may fail to achieve the desire ends in the absence
of sincere, competent and professionally aware teachers. National Policy on
Education (1986) rightly states “No people can rise above the level of its teachers”.
As a person imbibes, interprets and disseminates the relevant items of culture and
traditions of the past, he creates new knowledge, promotes innovations, critically
appraises the past and its traditions and cultures, sifts the grain from the chaffe,
strengthens social and economic fabrics of the nation. Education is basically the
influence which the teacher exerts on the students entrusted to his care. Effective
teachers are required in the classroom because even the best curriculum and most
perfect syllabus remain ineffective in the absence of a good teacher. The teaching
profession, according to Daniels (1973) inherently entails certain well-known self
obvious and implicit obligations, commitments and expectations from its members.
The society bestows its trust on all the professionals to rise to the demands of the
profession. In order to perform his role of paramount and vital significance
effectively, a teacher should be professionally aware of professional demands and
obligations placed on him by the profession. Further the role of teachers in
influencing the future of our advancing national development is becoming
increasingly important. Development of the country requires a high rate of production
and fullest possible utilization of both human as well as material resources.
Nowadays, there is, however, a general feeling that the teachers do not have
satisfaction in their job. There seems to be growing discontentment towards their job
as a result of which standard of education are falling. Teachers are dissatisfied in
spite of different plans and programs, which have been implemented to improve their
job. Job satisfaction consists of total body of feeling about the nature of job
promotion, nature of supervision etc. that an individual has about his job. If the sum
total of influence of these factors gives arises to feelings of satisfaction, the individual
has job satisfaction. Under such circumstances it is essential that the proper
understanding concerning satisfaction emanating from the job life be obtained.
2010-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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kainth, Dr .Gursharan Singh and Kaur, Mrs. Gurinder (2010): Job Satisfaction: A Challenging Area of Research in Education.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:30790
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Contraceptive use among illiterate women in India: does proximate illiteracy matter?
Husain, Zakir
Dutta, Mousumi
Ghosh, Sriparna
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
I20 - General
C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions
Illiterate women comprise a particularly vulnerable section of the community. They lack empowerment, are unable to voice their choice with respect to contraceptive use, and also lack access to health services. However, their lack of literacy may be compensated if their partners are literate. Contraceptive use of such illiterate women (proximate literates), may be higher than that of illiterate women whose partners too are illiterates (isolate illiterates).
The study uses the third wave of the Demographic Health Survey data for India (2005-2006).The 34,108 currently married illiterate women for whom data is available in the Individual file was divided into two groups, based on whether their partners were literate. Current use of modern contraceptives was compared between these two groups for socio-economic and demographic correlates. This was followed by multivariate analysis based on a logit model. Current use of modern methods was regressed on a dummy representing whether the partner was literate, along with relevant control variables.
The results of the All-India (Rural+Urban) and All-India (Rural) models indicated that literacy of partners did lead to a significantly higher level of use of modern contraceptive methods. For the urban sub-sample, however, the study failed to find any significant transmission of information from the literate partner to the respondents. Disaggregate-level analysis also revealed that such transmission was restricted to only specific situations and communities. The study argued that the results may be explained by: [a] Reluctance of the male partner to share information; [b] Lack of information about family planning methods, even when there is communication; and [c] Presence of alternative channels of information reducing dependence of illiterate women on her partner.
There should be an attempt to increase information of both partners through face to face interaction, rather than relying solely on public media. Simultaneously, women should be encouraged to develop contacts outside her household as this can reduce her dependence of partner for family planning related knowledge.
2011-05-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30790/1/MPRA_paper_30790.pdf
Husain, Zakir and Dutta, Mousumi and Ghosh, Sriparna (2011): Contraceptive use among illiterate women in India: does proximate illiteracy matter?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:32025
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Impacto de la ayuda financiera en la matrícula técnica y universitaria
Blanco, Christian
Meneses, Francisco
I20 - General
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
We aimed to evaluate the impact of governmental financial aid in vocational and college enrollment, solving the endogenous process in the application to benefits. Using a two-step instrumental varia- bles procedure, we found that college financial aid increases college enrollment by 30%. Being se- lected to college financial aid reduces the probability of vocational enrollment, although only voca- tional financial aid does increases this probability, which may be understood as a substitution effect.
2013-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32025/1/MPRA_paper_32025.pdf
Blanco, Christian and Meneses, Francisco (2013): Impacto de la ayuda financiera en la matrícula técnica y universitaria. Published in: Sociedad Hoy , Vol. 1, No. 24 (June 2013): pp. 107-117.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:32427
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Технологии для HR-менеджеров: Типология для экономического поведения персонала, Применение, Разработка механизмов
Shiyan, Anatoliy A.
L21 - Business Objectives of the Firm
A20 - General
I20 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
C90 - General
B41 - Economic Methodology
The book is the first completer description of the typology for person’s economic behavior (the author – Anatoly A. Shiyan).
The problem on description of personal behavior has a crucial role for the development of mechanisms design for personnel management, because by elaborated technologies the behavior of a person or large groups of people can be predicted.
The material of the book is needed for the design of mechanisms in labor economics, especially for the design of mechanisms for the optimal control on human economical behavior.
The book describes a method of constructing an information space based on the economic characteristics of the interior (the context of behavior). Human behavior is defined as a change in the components of the information space, which is the result of human activity. The man's behavior is formally described as a mathematical operator in the information space. The action of this operator changes the values of the components of information.
It is proved that the smallest number of operators, which needed to describe any economic behavior, consist from 16 types. These types are called
“two-components abstract information automata” (2AIA).
The technology for techniques for determine the type is constructed – e.g. the methods for classify the economical behavior of a person to the one and only one type of 2AIA are described.
The mathematical description of the joint economic behavior for group of people is obtained. The mathematical description of a hierarchically organized economic behavior for group of people is obtained.
In the book, the technologies for solving of the major problems for HR are described: the technologies for selection of persons (as types 2AIA) for a given economic behavior, the optimal technology for teaching people (as types 2AIA), and the technologies to manage a person (as type 2AIA). The technologies for optimization of the functioning of firms with using of the typology 2AIA and
developed in the book the hierarchical control systems (“Pyramid of Management”) are described.
The many examples for using of the 2AIA-type for optimization of the economic behavior of both the individual and large group of people (the pyramids of management) are described in this book.
The book can be used as a textbook as it contains many examples and tasks for independent decision.
Note: Downloadable document is in Russian.
2011-05-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32427/1/MPRA_paper_32427.pdf
Shiyan, Anatoliy A. (2011): Технологии для HR-менеджеров: Типология для экономического поведения персонала, Применение, Разработка механизмов.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33791
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A national accounts satellite for human capital and education
Bos, Frits
I20 - General
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts
H52 - Government Expenditures and Education
The official national accounts statistics do not show the role of human capital in the national
economy. A set of satellite tables supplementing the standard national accounts statistics
could serve this data need. In this satellite account, expenditure on education and training are
recorded as human capital formation. This includes not only the expenditure on primary,
secondary and tertiary education, but also expenditure on training and courses by employers
and the earnings foregone by students. Consumption of human capital is allocated to various
persons and industries as a charge on their income; it is not part of final consumption
expenditure. The satellite shows more comprehensively than OECD Education at a Glance
who pays for human capital formation. It also shows how education and training are
employed in the national economy. In line with calculations of private and social rates of
return, taxes and subsides on labour income and the relative prices of various types of labour
(high-skilled, medium-skilled, low-skilled) are also shown. Links could be made with labour
accounts broken-down by level of education, productivity and growth accounts and tables on
expenditure by function of government, households and corporations. A simple
decomposition analysis can show the role of demography and participation rates in the
development of public expenditure on education. The satellite could be regarded as a macroeconomic
framework supplementing the OECD-statistic Education at a Glance.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33791/1/MPRA_paper_33791.pdf
Bos, Frits (2011): A national accounts satellite for human capital and education.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34038
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Managementul calităţii în învăţământul superior-între eficienţă şi deficienţă
Turturean, Monica
I29 - Other
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
The universities have to assure the highest level of quality management, to help teachers and students to acquire the European knowledge. The universities must be encouraged to develop better for the promotion of academic and civic values. However, the reality is often quite different: we find that the phrase "quality management" is understood differently, having different connotations ,depending on the beliefs and values of the institutional managers, but also depending on the financial resources which they have and are willing to spend for an adequate training of all categories of personnel involved in education, with the aim of promoting an effective quality management to enable the acquisition of performance on all plans and to contribute, ultimately, to the development of the society.
2007-09-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34038/1/MPRA_paper_34038.pdf
Turturean, Monica (2007): Managementul calităţii în învăţământul superior-între eficienţă şi deficienţă. Published in: Progrese în teoria deciziilor economice în conditii de risc si incertitudine , Vol. 5, (September 2008)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34423
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Common tongue: The impact of language on economic performance
Jain, Tarun
I20 - General
O43 - Institutions and Growth
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
N95 - Asia including Middle East
This paper investigates the impact of language on economic performance. I use the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of speaking the majority language on educational and occupational outcomes. I find that districts that spoke the majority language of the state during colonial times enjoy persistent economic benefits, as evidenced by higher educational achievement and employment in communication intensive sectors. After reorganization, historically minority language districts experience greater growth in educational achievement, indicating that reassignment could reverse the impact of history.
2011-11-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34423/1/MPRA_paper_34423.pdf
Jain, Tarun (2011): Common tongue: The impact of language on economic performance.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34619
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The effect of polytechnic reform on migration
Böckerman, Petri
Haapanen, Mika
I20 - General
J10 - General
J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
This paper examines the effect of polytechnic reform on geographical mobility. A polytechnic, higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and also brought higher education to regions that did not have a university before. This expansion of higher education provides exogenous variation in the regional supply of higher education. We find that the reform increased the migration of high school graduates. The migration propensities increased particularly close to graduation from high school, but some results also suggest a smaller positive effect over a longer period.
2011-11-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34619/1/MPRA_paper_34619.pdf
Böckerman, Petri and Haapanen, Mika (2011): The effect of polytechnic reform on migration.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:35284
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Ethnicity and degree attainment
Broecke, Stijn
Nicholls, Tom
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
In this paper, we investigate the low degree attainment of ethnic minority students in higher education in England. Using a partial proportional odds model and data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for qualifiers who
started their course of study in 2002/03, we find that even after controlling for the majority of factors which we would expect to have an impact on attainment, being from a
minority ethnic community is still statistically significant in explaining final attainment, although the gap has been significantly reduced.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35284/1/MPRA_paper_35284.pdf
Broecke, Stijn and Nicholls, Tom (2007): Ethnicity and degree attainment.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:35595
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Gender gaps in higher education participation: An analysis of the relationship between prior attainment and young participation by gender, socio-economic class and ethnicity
Broecke, Stijn
Hamed, Joseph
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
In this paper, we use two new datasets to explore the extent to which the gender gap in higher education participation amongst young people in England is related to prior attainment. We find no conclusive evidence of a gender difference in the likelihood of participating in higher education once prior attainment is controlled for. We do find, however, that young people from ethnic minority backgrounds are overwhelmingly more likely to enter higher education compared to White people with the same prior attainment. In the case of young people who were eligible for free school meals, we find that prior attainment explains the vast majority of the gap in participation compared to non-FSM pupils, however we still find a small, negative (and statistically significant) effect, which we could not eliminate entirely in any of our models.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35595/1/MPRA_paper_35595.pdf
Broecke, Stijn and Hamed, Joseph (2008): Gender gaps in higher education participation: An analysis of the relationship between prior attainment and young participation by gender, socio-economic class and ethnicity.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:36694
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Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students
Tendero, Julieta
I29 - Other
A32 - Collective Volumes
A39 - Other
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z19 - Other
A31 - Collected Writings of Individuals
A29 - Other
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
Y80 - Related Disciplines
Y9 - Other
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
Y30 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
Y8 - Related Disciplines
A30 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
A3 - Collective Works
Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
A19 - Other
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
Y90 - Other
I28 - Government Policy
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the hemispheric dominance (HD) and the English proficiency (EP) scores in the four macro skills of the Western Mindanao State University college students. It hypothesized that students’ HD would have a significant correlation a) with their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading and writing, b) with their global EP score, c) with both the macro and global scores when respondents would be grouped according to age, gender and area of specialization.
In this study, there were 240 respondents selected through purposive, stratified, and random sampling techniques from the 5,096 students of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Education. Using the standardized HD Test, the standardized Listening and Reading Comprehension Tests, the researcher-made Speaking and Writing Skill Tests and Cloze Test and employing mainly the Pearson r for the statistical analysis, the study concluded: 1) that most of the students of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Education of Western Mindanao State University were left-brained (74.6%); 2) that the students were “good” in speaking, “fair” in listening and writing skills but “ poor” in reading and in global English; 3) that there was no significant relationship between the students’ hemisphericity and their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading, writing and global proficiency tests; and 4) that a significant relationship was shown between HD and EP scores when respondents were grouped according to age and area of specialization only.
2000-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Tendero, Julieta (2000): Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students.
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Towards a benchmark on the contribution of education and training to employability: methodological note
Garrouste, Christelle
A22 - Undergraduate
A23 - Graduate
E27 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
I20 - General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
C15 - Statistical Simulation Methods: General
A21 - Pre-college
The present report presents the methodological framework applied to define the benchmark on education for employability to be proposed to European Council in 2012. While the three first sections present the proposed indicator, the fourth section discusses the sensitivity of
that indicator to a change in data source and its correlation with counterfactuals. Moreover, section 5 presents the forecasting approach applied to define the target level at the horizon 2020. Section 6 presents the results of the deterministic and stochastic forecasting models and section 7 concludes.
2011-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Garrouste, Christelle (2011): Towards a benchmark on the contribution of education and training to employability: methodological note. Published in: JRC Scientific and Technical Reports , Vol. EUR 24, No. 2011 (September 2011): pp. 1-86.
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Impact of Food Price Rise on School Enrollment and Dropout in the Poor and Vulnerable Households in Selected Areas of Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim
I30 - General
I20 - General
This study has explored the impact of the rise in food prices on the education of children in the poor and vulnerable households in Bangladesh. It appears that during early 2008 the prices of rice, pulses and edible oil increased tremendously which threatened the status of food security of these poor and vulnerable households in Bangladesh. As a result of the price hike, significant percent of households were forced to cut their consumption of rice, pulses and edible oil. The households who could maintain the level of consumption of rice unaffected, they could do so at the cost of reduced consumption of other non-rice food items or/and by reducing the non-food expenditure, i.e., expenses on their children education. High percentage of households experiencing dropout of their children were observed because of the price hike of food items as most of the households could not continue to bear the expenses on their children’s education. A significant proportion of these dropped out children were engaged in different jobs with the aim of contributing to their household income. In this sense, the opportunity cost of sending children from these poor and vulnerable households appeared to be high. In all cases, the female headed households turned out to be affected more than their male counterparts. The poor and vulnerable households under consideration employed several coping strategies to combat the adverse effects of food price hike, and ‘becoming more indebted by taking loans’ turned out to be the most widely used coping strategy.
2009-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37900/1/MPRA_paper_37900.pdf
Raihan, Selim (2009): Impact of Food Price Rise on School Enrollment and Dropout in the Poor and Vulnerable Households in Selected Areas of Bangladesh. Published in: (March 2009)
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Formation professionnelle et croissance économique Quelles interactions dans les cas du Maroc et la Tunisie ?
Bouoiyour, Jamal
Hanchane, Said
I20 - General
E23 - Production
We use the Solow augmented model to quantify the long-term determinants of growth in Morocco and Tunisia.
In the Tunisian case, these later are the capital in the broad sense (physical and human), the growth of the population and the lagged GDP (what confirms the occurrence of the catching-up phenomenon). In Morocco, we find the same variables except the capital (in the broad sense) which is not always significant. If at the level of the general training Tunisia is more successful than Morocco, at the level of the professional training Morocco is better than Tunisia.
2008-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/38222/1/MPRA_paper_38222.pdf
Bouoiyour, Jamal and Hanchane, Said (2008): Formation professionnelle et croissance économique Quelles interactions dans les cas du Maroc et la Tunisie ? Published in: FEMISE - European commission (August 2008): pp. 106-128.
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Joint Liability vs. Individual Incentives in the Classroom. Lessons from a Field Experiment with Undergraduate Students
Cid, Alejandro
Cabrera, José María
I20 - General
We evaluate the impact of joint-liability incentives in the classroom using a randomized field
experiment. The instructor design groups of three students in the classroom and provides a
premium to their homework's grade only if all three members of the group accomplish some
requirements. To isolate the joint liability effect from selfish motivations, we design also an
individual incentives treatment. We find that joint-liability incentives impact positively on the
grades accomplished in homework and midterm exams both in the experimental courses and
in the other courses taken by the students in the semester. Though the positive average effect
seems to disappear in the final exams, the overall impact of joint-liability incentives on the
academic achievements in the semester is still positive. A drawback of this program is a
decrease in the satisfaction with classmates. The significant effectiveness of the peer
monitoring developed by the joint liability of group incentives provides novel implications for
the design of the grading policies in the classroom and for other social settings where
incentives may be based in peer monitoring or joint liability.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39907/1/MPRA_paper_39907.pdf
Cid, Alejandro and Cabrera, José María (2012): Joint Liability vs. Individual Incentives in the Classroom. Lessons from a Field Experiment with Undergraduate Students.
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Governance and Intelligence: Empirical Analysis from African Data
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
O55 - Africa
I20 - General
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
This study aims at testing the relation between intelligence and governance. It is based on African data. This study finds that countries with high-IQ populations enjoy good governance.
2012-05-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39937/1/MPRA_paper_39937.pdf
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis (2012): Governance and Intelligence: Empirical Analysis from African Data.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:40602
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De Nederlandse collectieve uitgaven in historisch perspectief
Bos, Frits
E62 - Fiscal Policy
H50 - General
D70 - General
I20 - General
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
E65 - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
N44 - Europe: 1913-
I10 - General
This paper discusses the development of public expenditure in the Netherlands since 1850. Why did public expenditure increase from 14% GDP in 1850, nearly 20% in 1921, 30% GDP in 1950 and over 60% GDP in 1983? Dutch public expenditure has fallen to less than 50% GDP in 2003. Why did this reversal occur?
In the period 1921-1950, Dutch public expenditure increased with 10% GDP. About one third of this increase is due to expenditure on social security. Also the expenditure for most other functions increased rapidly: defence, transfers to corporations, international cooperation, health care, public administration and safety. This contrasts with the development of expenditure on education: these remained stable for thirty years as a percentage of GDP; expenditure on infrastructure even declined in this period.
In the period 1951-1983, Dutch public expenditure increased with 32% GDP. Nearly half of this increase was caused by the expenditure on social security, like benefits for old age, disablement en unemployment. The rest of the increase was due to extra expenditure on public administration, health care, education, interest and transfers to corporations.
During the last two decades, Dutch public expenditure decreased with 12% GDP to 49% GDP in 2003. This is the same as the level during the middle of the seventies. Expenditure on social security, like benefits for old age, illness, unemployment and social assistance, contributed a major part to this decline. However, also the expenditure on various other functions, like transfers to corporations, interest, defence and education, were substantially reduced. Their impact on the decline of the share of total public expenditure even surpassed that of the function social security. At the same time, the public expenditure for health care, public administration and safety increased.
For the period since 1950, the role of a wide range of determinants have been investigated. Increasing participation in education, extra expenditure on health care due to increasing welfare and lagging productivity growth of public services put a permanent upward pressure on public expenditure. Since 1950, participation in education increased with 0.7% per year and the real public expenditure on health care per capita increased with 7% per year.
During the fifties and sixties, the development of the welfare state, the extension of the services provided by the government and the increase in the interest rate have boosted the increase in public expenditure. As a percentage of GDP, public expenditure increased from nearly 30% GDP in 1950 to nearly 45% GDP in 1970. During the seventies, the use of social security arrangements grew rapidly, while labour market participation fell. Together with factors like the introduction of big subsidies on private investments (WIR), this lifted public expenditure to over 60% GDP in 1983. As a consequence, public expenditure as a percentage of GDP doubled in the period 1951-1983.
The trends with respect to participation in education, health care and lagging productivity growth of public services pushed public expenditure since 1983 upwards. This makes the decline of public expenditure with over 10% GDP even more remarkable.
General wage moderation, cuts in the benefit level of social assistance, reduction in the number of unemployment and social assistance benefits and the abolishment of the subsidy on private investments have contributed substantially to this decline. Nevertheless, the role of four other developments was even bigger: increased labour market participation of women, the savings on education due to ageing, the drastic reduction in the interest rate and the diminished military threat.
Labour market participation of women increased from over 40% in 1983 to 63% in 2003. This increased GDP and - via the denominator - decreased public expenditure as a percentage of GDP; this effect counts for a reduction of about 5% GDP. Education pertains in particular to the population between 5 and 24 years. Since 1983, the relative size of this age group declined with 1,6% per year. This generated a budgetary saving of 2% GDP. The decline in the interest rate on government debt from 9% in 1983 to 5% in 2003 was responsible for a similar saving. The end of the Cold War diminished the military threat. As a consequence, the share of defence in national employment could be halved from 2% to 1%. Also this specific factor accounted for a budgetary benefit of about 2% GDP.
Finally, also the shift from public to private tasks, like the sale of equity stock, the redemption of the big loans to housing corporations and the abolition of collectively financed paid sick leave, has lowered public expenditure.
The shift from public to private tasks and the substantial budget cuts reflect a drastic change in the view on the tools and tasks of the government: the role of steering and protecting by the government have become much less important, while the role of private responsibility, financial incentives and the market mechanism have become much more important.
Some lessons from the past
Figures on public expenditure as a percentage of GDP are often used to indicate that the government is spending too much or not enough. However, public expenditure as a percentage of GDP is often affected very strongly by external factors, shifts between public and private tasks and shifts between public expenditure and fiscal arrangements. Ignoring the role of these factors can lead to wrong analyses and unintended policy, e.g. the increase in expenditure on education in order to compensate for the decrease in the number of pupils students due to ageing.
According to Baumol’s disease, public expenditure as a percentage of GDP will increase due to the combined effect of a lagging productivity growth of publicly financed services, a change in wage rate in the public sector that follows productivity growth in the private sector and a relatively price-inelastic demand for public services. However, during the past fifty years in the Netherlands, wage rates in the public sector did not increase in line with productivity growth in the private sector but in line with the much lower general productivity growth.
Innovative methodology
An interesting feature of the paper is the method of analysis. The international COFOG-functions were mostly ignored, as they are not well suited for policy analysis. Instead alternative functions were defined based on a mix of national accounts classifications, transactions, industries and sectors receiving transfers. Furthermore, the expenditure by function were systematically decomposed by looking at major underlying schemes (e.g. for social security benefits and subsidies) and by a decomposition of the changes in value into changes in volumes (e.g. employment in the public sector or number of social benefits for scheme x) and prices (e.g. average wage rate in the public sector and average social benefit for scheme x). Such decompositions are essential for a meaningful analysis, e.g. to unravel the impact of demographic changes and to show the role of new social security arrangements and shifts between public expenditure and tax expenditure.
2006-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Bos, Frits (2006): De Nederlandse collectieve uitgaven in historisch perspectief.
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Impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers: a systematic review of the literature
Vivas-Augier, Carlos
Barge-Gil, Andrés
O30 - General
I20 - General
L10 - General
This study summarizes the main conclusions from a systematic review of the empirical literature regarding the impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers, including universities, technology institutes or knowledge intensive business firms. We use a criteria to classify the literature according to the research question addressed: (i) Which firms use knowledge providers?; (ii) Do firms using them achieve better results?; (iii) Which firms benefit more from using knowledge providers? Stylized facts are that larger, more R&D intensive and high tech firms are more likely to use knowledge providers and that use of knowledge providers is associated to firms higher technical results. Less attention has been paid to the third question so that no stylized facts can be developed on it. Three important recommendations for future research emerge. First, to pay more attention to methodological issues, such as sample selection and endogeneity, which may potentially bias the results. Second, to develop comparative analysis of the differential features of different knowledge providers. Third, to take depth and breadth of collaborations into account.
2012-07-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41042/1/MPRA_paper_41042.pdf
Vivas-Augier, Carlos and Barge-Gil, Andrés (2012): Impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers: a systematic review of the literature.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:41366
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A Characterization of the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism for the School Choice Problem
Dur, Umut
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
I20 - General
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Abstract This paper characterizes the top trading cycles mechanism for the school choice problem. Schools may have multiple available seats to be assigned to students. For each school a strict priority ordering of students is determined by the school district. Each student has strict preference over the schools. We first define weaker forms of fairness, consistency and resource monotonicity. We show that the top trading cycles mechanism is the unique Pareto efficient and strategy-proof mechanism that satisfies the weaker forms of fairness, consistency and resource monotonicity. To our knowledge this is the first axiomatic approach to the top trading cycles mechanism in the school choice problem where schools have a capacity greater than one.
2012-09-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Dur, Umut (2012): A Characterization of the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism for the School Choice Problem.
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Motivations for the Bessarabian youth to study in Romanian universities
Stefanescu, Razvan
Dumitriu, Ramona
Nistor, Costel
I29 - Other
I20 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
This paper explores the decisions of Bessarabian youth to study in a branch of a Romanian university. We used data collected from individual interviews with 58 students. We find that uncertainty and the material constraints played a major role in their choice. We also identify some factors with relevant influence on the schooling decisions, such as the perceptions about the costs of education, the wage expectations, and the compatibility with the future profession.
2011-10-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Stefanescu, Razvan and Dumitriu, Ramona and Nistor, Costel (2011): Motivations for the Bessarabian youth to study in Romanian universities. Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference „EDUCATION AND CREATIVITY FOR A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY”- 5 edition November 2011, Bucharest No. Social and Political Science (6 November 2011): pp. 19-25.
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La elección del sector laboral y los retornos a la educación en Guatemala
Alejos, Luis Alejandro
J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials
I20 - General
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
This paper estimates the returns to education in Guatemala, while attempting to account for self-employment and the presence of workers without monetary earnings in the economy, factors whose omission can potentially lead to sample selection bias. The analysis uses data from the Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI 2000) to obtain estimates of the rate of returns to different levels of schooling using a human capital earnings function. A multinomial logit model for sector choice is implemented to correct for selection bias as in Bourguignon, Fournier and Gurgand (2001). Non-linearities in the returns to education are strongly supported by the empirical results. It is found that OLS estimates which do not account for sector choice significantly overestimate the returns to primary and early secondary schooling, while underestimating the returns to late secondary education. The results also show lower rates of return in the self-employment sector and that workers who only complete primary or early secondary schooling have a higher probability of entering this sector.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/42756/1/MPRA_paper_42756.pdf
Alejos, Luis Alejandro (2006): La elección del sector laboral y los retornos a la educación en Guatemala. Published in: Revista Estudios Sociales , Vol. IV Epo, No. 75 : pp. 13-64.
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Does Higher Education System of United Kingdom Produce Enough Graduates?
Shah, Ashfaque Ahmad
Arain, Amjad Ali
I20 - General
A20 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
In this discourse the researcher tried to make the readers view the three-dimensional image of the
productivity and contribution of higher education of United Kingdom, quantitatively as well as
qualitatively, through the prism of comparison with that of USA and France. The researcher presented
information regarding population, economic status, graduate enrolment and entrance trend of the higher
education students in the United Kingdom. And at the end the researcher gave the data depicting the
impact of higher education on the UK economy. Although, UK comes to the second place (after the
USA, a giant in knowledge and economy) in the world, yet the competing situation in France could not
be overlooked. The researcher thinks it will make the reader able to have, not only, some knowledge of
the higher education system but also the relationship of higher education and labour market. It will also
help the reader to dig out into the efficacy and efficiency of the system with regards to the economic
development of the state.
2012-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/44265/1/MPRA_paper_44269.pdf
Shah, Ashfaque Ahmad and Arain, Amjad Ali (2012): Does Higher Education System of United Kingdom Produce Enough Graduates? Published in: Archives Des Sciences , Vol. Vol 65, No. No. 5 (5 May 2012): pp. 90-105.
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Academia de Drept din Oradea în perioada de Tranziție de la autoritățile maghiare la cele românești(1919 – 1921)
Chirodea, Florentina
I20 - General
I28 - Government Policy
N34 - Europe: 1913-
N44 - Europe: 1913-
Created by the Hungarian Minister of Instruction and Religion in an attempt to depopulate the Universities of Hungary from the big number of auditors, the Romanian Era of the Law Academy of Oradea began with two academic years , 1919 – 1920 and 1920 – 1921, of transition from the
Hungarian authorities to the Romanian ones. Due to the efficiency of the Dirigent Council of managing the issues of the Transylvanian education, during 1919 and the first half of 1920, the Academy’s activity was not interrupted. The students could continue the studies in similar conditions as those existing before 1918, fact that helped many of them sustain both, the main exams, the final state
ones and those of Justice. At the end of the three transitions years, the education institution of Oradea was able to begin the academic year 1921 – 1922 in normal conditions.
2010
MPRA Paper
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Chirodea, Florentina (2010): Academia de Drept din Oradea în perioada de Tranziție de la autoritățile maghiare la cele românești(1919 – 1921). Published in: Sorin Șipoș, Mircea Brie, Ioan Horga, Ion Gumenâi, Barbu Ștefănescu (coord.), Politici imperiale în estul și vestul spațiului românesc, University of Oradea Press, Cartdidact Press, Oradea, Chișinău, 2010 (2010): pp. 373-385.
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Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District
Hati, Koushik Kumar
Majumder, Rajarshi
H43 - Project Evaluation ; Social Discount Rate
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
I28 - Government Policy
N35 - Asia including Middle East
Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system also serves as the base over which the super-structure of the whole knowledge system is built up. This calls for bringing all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill. The former have been hailed as a successful instrument to remove all ills plaguing the elementary education system in India through some of its alternative, innovative, and flexible programs. In this paper we examine the performance of one of the Flagship programme under SSA – the Bridge Course Centres – in selected areas of West Bengal to evaluate its performance, identify the shortcomings, and suggest some steps for improving them. This is extremely important as the SSA is now being extended to Madhyamik Shikhsa Mission and mistakes of the former should not be repeated in the latter.
2009-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45845/1/MPRA_paper_45845.pdf
Hati, Koushik Kumar and Majumder, Rajarshi (2009): Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District. Published in: Journal of Educational Planning and Administration , Vol. XXV, No. 3 (July 2011)
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Corruption dans le Secteur d'Education : Une Typologie de Conséquences
Dridi, Mohamed
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
I20 - General
The aim of this paper is to focus on corrupt practices that develop within the education sector and the consequences associated with them. Given the fact that most previous studies dealing with the costs of corruption put emphasis only on corruption from public officials, we propose a typology of consequences that allows a comprehensive understanding of the effects related to corrupt practices that could thrive in the education sector. The typology of consequences presented in this paper identifies three types of consequences: those related to the achievement of the goals of access, quality and equality given to the education system, those related to the demand for education and school performance and, those related to the achievement of broader objectives of the education sector and the development of society as a whole.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46874/1/MPRA_paper_46874.pdf
Dridi, Mohamed (2013): Corruption dans le Secteur d'Education : Une Typologie de Conséquences.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47552
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Impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers: a systematic review of the literature
Vivas-Augier, Carlos
Barge-Gil, Andrés
O30 - General
I20 - General
L10 - General
This study summarizes the main conclusions from a systematic review of the empirical literature regarding the impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers (universities, research institutes and knowledge intensive business services). With the aim to organize the literature, we classify the different works according to the research question addressed: (i) Which firms use knowledge providers?; (ii) Do firms using knowledge providers achieve better results?; (iii) Which firms benefit more from using knowledge providers? Stylized facts are that larger, more R&D intensive and high tech firms are more likely to use knowledge providers and that use of knowledge providers is associated to firms higher technical results. Less attention has been paid to the third question and no stylized facts can be developed on it. Several recommendations for future research emerge. First, to take in greater consideration methodological issues so that potential biases in the results, caused by sample selection and endogeneity, are handled properly. Second, to develop comparative analysis of the differential features of different knowledge providers. Third, to pay more attention to the determinants of impact, and fourth, to take into account depth and breadth of collaborations.
2013-06-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47552/8/MPRA_paper_47552.pdf
Vivas-Augier, Carlos and Barge-Gil, Andrés (2013): Impact on firms of the use of knowledge providers: a systematic review of the literature.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48061
2019-09-26T12:14:14Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48061/
When Will India Achieve Universal Adult Literacy: Status and Prospects
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I24 - Education and Inequality
I28 - Government Policy
The present paper examines status and disparities across sub-population groups distinguished by location, gender and caste, and across, states with respect to literacy. It also explores the prospects of literacy rate in India with a modelling of simulation exercise while considering different policy interventions. In this respect it is observed that the performance of India in literacy rate is relatively poor. The progress in the literacy rate especially during the last decade is decelerated when compared to that of the previous decade. Again, rural-urban differences, gender gaps and social group disparities and regional variations across states continue to persist. The initiative for improving literacy rate through informal/non-formal adult education programmes especially in the context of National Literacy Mission and its initiative of Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) yielded very poor results. With respect to the prospects of India in meeting the EFA goal related to adult literacy are not so encouraging. It would require greater policy attention and better initiative for the improvement of adult literacy. Our simulation exercise has shown that the impossibility of achieving 100% literacy rate in the near future for the country unless there is a policy intervention through adult education programme. The exercise indicates the need for rejuvenating the National Literacy Mission (NLM) and revamped adult literacy programmes of TLC and PLP.
2013-07-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48061/1/MPRA_paper_48061.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2013): When Will India Achieve Universal Adult Literacy: Status and Prospects.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48144
2019-09-28T15:36:24Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48144/
Education and Literacy in Andhra Pradesh (Pre-School, School, Higher and Technical Education and Adult Literacy and Skills)
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
I24 - Education and Inequality
I25 - Education and Economic Development
I28 - Government Policy
The present background paper reviews the progress of education including K12, vocational and higher education, skill development and literacy particularly during the last two decades in Andhra Pradesh and an attempt is made to identify gaps. It is observed that pre-primary education in the state, as is the case of all over India, still neglected and needs a strong policy intervention. With respect to school education, although the quantitative expansion is remarkable in the state as well as in India thanks to DPEP and SSA initiatives, the quality of education is still cause of concern. Besides, the progress in school education is the still short of meeting the goal of universal elementary education. The higher education too is suffering with the quantity-quality trade-off. The expansion of vocational education is inadequate and there is a lacuna skill development programmes in the state. Again, despite the progress in expansion of education in the state literacy rate is one of the lowest in Andhra Pradesh when compared with rest of the states in India. Simulation exercise has shown that unless there is a strong policy intervention, Andhra Pradesh will never achieve universal adult literacy in the near future. All these are pertinent issues particularly in the context of harnessing demographic dividend in the state as well as all over India.
2013-07-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48144/1/MPRA_paper_48144.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2013): Education and Literacy in Andhra Pradesh (Pre-School, School, Higher and Technical Education and Adult Literacy and Skills).
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48387
2019-09-27T10:52:01Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48387/
Privatization of School Education in Andhra Pradesh : Regional Implications
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I22 - Educational Finance ; Financial Aid
I24 - Education and Inequality
The present paper explores trends in privatization of school education in Andhra Pradesh and regional variations and its implications
2009-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48387/1/MPRA_paper_48387.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2009): Privatization of School Education in Andhra Pradesh : Regional Implications.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48413
2019-09-28T10:58:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48413/
Educational Development Index Based on DISE data for Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
I24 - Education and Inequality
I25 - Education and Economic Development
I28 - Government Policy
While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance at the state/national levels. In the planning process there should be differential emphasis where the laggards have to be focussed more than others. To get an understanding of performance at the regional levels, it requires a disaggregated analysis to facilitate micro level planning given the information availability at this disaggregated level. Such a disaggregated analysis is not only limited to exposing the regional scene of educational progress/development but also helps in identifying specific aspects/features associated with varying degrees of progress across regions. On this premise an attempt is made here towards evaluating the current status of the educational development in an Indian state (Uttar Pradesh) at the district level.
2005-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48413/1/MPRA_paper_48413.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2005): Educational Development Index Based on DISE data for Districts of Uttar Pradesh.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48416
2019-09-28T18:36:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48416/
Child Labour and Schooling in a Histrical Perspective: The Developed Countries Experience
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I28 - Government Policy
J20 - General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J23 - Labor Demand
J80 - General
J82 - Labor Force Composition
J88 - Public Policy
In the light of the present debate on the problem of child labour in developing countries, it is the need of the hour to look into the experiences of those developed/industrialised nations. The high incidence of child labour in the industrialised nations during the last two centuries, especially in 19th century, also generated a debate. It is hoped that a greater understanding of the history of childhood and child labour in the developed countries help us to understand, analyse and appreciate this problem in the Third World Countries such a India, better. Hence, we undertake this review of the phenomenon of child labour in the developed countries such as Great Britain, Germany, Japan and USA.
2004-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48416/1/MPRA_paper_48416.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2004): Child Labour and Schooling in a Histrical Perspective: The Developed Countries Experience.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48438
2019-09-26T20:37:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48438/
Child Work and Schooling in a Backward Region of Andhra Pradesh, India: Observations from the Field
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I24 - Education and Inequality
I28 - Government Policy
J20 - General
J23 - Labor Demand
The paper made an attempt present the micro reality with respect to child work and educational deprivation of children in the form of observations made based on the field survey in a village of backward district in Andhra Pradesh. The discussion sheds light on the circumstances that lead to the widespread phenomenon of non-school-going children and flourishing child labour in several areas of Andhra Pradesh. The parents’ perceptions, which reinforce these trends, have also been highlighted.
2006-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48438/1/MPRA_paper_48438.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2006): Child Work and Schooling in a Backward Region of Andhra Pradesh, India: Observations from the Field.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48508
2019-09-26T17:47:46Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48508/
Historical Factors in the Process of Educational Deprivation of Children: The Case of Telangana Region of Nizam’s Hyderabad State
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
I20 - General
I28 - Government Policy
N30 - General, International, or Comparative
The present study explores the historical sources of educational deprivation of children in Telangana region of the Andhra Pradesh during its pre-independence period. Telangana was part of Nizam’s Hyderabad state prior to independence and later independent Hyderbad state until it was unified with Andhra and became part of Andhra Pradesh under the States Reorganisation Act 1956.
2005-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48508/1/MPRA_paper_48508.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana (2005): Historical Factors in the Process of Educational Deprivation of Children: The Case of Telangana Region of Nizam’s Hyderabad State.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48617
2019-10-06T04:22:31Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48617/
Achieving Universal Literacy in Andhra Pradesh : Status and Prospects
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana
Chaganti, Ravi
I20 - General
I28 - Government Policy
The present analysis of progress in literacy rate and changes in disparities across social and geographical groups in literacy rate in Andhra Pradesh. Also an exercise explores the prospects of literacy in Andhra Pradesh with simulation modelling exercise which considers different policy interventions.
2012-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48617/1/MPRA_paper_48617.pdf
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana and Chaganti, Ravi (2012): Achieving Universal Literacy in Andhra Pradesh : Status and Prospects.
en
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