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Do Schooling Years Improve the Earning Capacity of Lower Income Groups?

Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper analyses the relationship between the popular Barro and Lee (2001) ‘Average years of Schooling’ with income inequality, wage inequality, and income deciles and income percentiles for the sample of developed and developing countries. The results suggest that countries where students...

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Knowledge, Diversity and Performance in European Higher Education

Bonaccorsi, Andrea (contributor) - Edward Elgar

For the first time, data on individual European higher education institutions (rather than data aggregated at the … a range of key questions, including: what is the role of non-university tertiary education, such as vocational training …

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New Developments in Economic Education

Mixon, Franklin G. (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

This innovative book offers targeted strategies for effectively and efficiently teaching economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It provides professors and other teachers of economics various techniques to engage and retain the interest of students, and challenges them to apply...

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International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics

Hoyt, Gail M. (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics provides a comprehensive resource for instructors and researchers in economics, both new and experienced. This wide-ranging collection is designed to enhance student learning by helping economic educators learn more about course...

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Teaching Innovations in Economics

Salemi, Michael K. (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

Teaching Innovations in Economics presents findings from the Teaching Innovations Program (TIP) funded by the National Science Foundation. The six-year project engaged economics professors in the use of interactive teaching in undergraduate economics courses. Each chapter offers an insightful...

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Educating Economists

Colander, David (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do …

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Discussing Economics

Salemi, Michael K.; Hansen, W. L. - Edward Elgar

Discussing Economics treats discussion – meaning formal consideration of questions about a reading – as a new approach to learning economics. Setting out a detailed approach modeled on the ideas of Mortimer Adler and the Great Books Foundation, the authors explain why instructors should...

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Efficiency and Economies of Scale in Academic Knowledge Production

Felderer, Bernhard; Obersteiner, Michael - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1999

This paper investigates the properties of knowledge production in academic research using a panel of 17 OECD countries reaching from 1989 to 1996. The production process is modelled using capital and labour as inputs and the number of published international journal articles and/or the number of...

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ERITREAN EDUCATION - RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Education has long been recognized as a central element in economics development. In Eritrea, Church education played a … the Muslim communities of the Eritrean Society. Since Independence, education is well organized in the country. Eritrea … has invested heavily in education and has embarked on a wide-ranging program. The World Bank, Eritrea has also made …

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Une analyse systémique de l'évaluation des ressources humaines - réflexions et expérimentations en milieu scolaire

Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Evaluation's way is set on a paradox. The feed-back of evaluation would imply - according to a wrong way - the evaluation of the examiner. Systemic Analysis could show the promises and the semantic limits of this technical. It seems to be impossible to measure work's human value through the...

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