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Educational Expansion, Skills Diffusion, and the Economic Value of Credentials and Skills:
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The economic value of education has been a central research agenda of social scientists for decades as discussed by the authors, however, prior research inadequately accounts for the discrepancy between educational outcomes and their economic value.Abstract:
Examining the economic value of education has been a central research agenda of social scientists for decades. However, prior research inadequately accounts for the discrepancy between educational ...read more
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Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor analytic studies
TL;DR: A survey of factor analytic studies of human cognitive abilities can be found in this paper, with a focus on the role of factor analysis in human cognitive ability evaluation and cognition. But this survey is limited.
Social limits to growth
TL;DR: One in a while, every twenty years perhaps, a book appears that makes one see a whole area of human experience in a new light as mentioned in this paper, and the new insights are sp obvious that one cannot understand how one could have missed them before.
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Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes
TL;DR: This paper used a regression discontinuity design based on admissions rules at elite business-focused degree programs in Chile to investigate whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy.
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Knowledge capital, growth, and the East Asian miracle Access to schools achieves only so much if quality is poor
Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Wößmann +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that too much attention is paid to the time spent in school, and too little ispaid to the quality of the schools and the types of skills developed there.
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Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills
TL;DR: This article analyzed potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries and found that returns to skill are systematically larger in countries that have grown faster in the recent past, consistent with models where skills are particularly important for adaptation to dynamic economic change.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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Job Market Signaling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model in which signaling is implicitly defined and explains its usefulness, in which the employer is not sure of the productive capabilities of an individual at the time he/she hires him.
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of investment in education and training on earnings and employment are discussed. But the authors focus on the relationship between age and earnings and do not explore the relation between education and fertility.
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Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital and developed the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters.
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The big five personality dimensions and job performance: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relation of the Big Five personality dimensions (extraversion, emotional stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience) to three job performance criteria (job proficiency, training proficiency, and personnel data) for five occupational groups (professionals, police, managers, sales, and skilled/semi-skilled).