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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Skill Formation"”.
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THREE ESSAYS ON CHILD HEALTH AND SKILL FORMATION
… the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in school-age children in the U.S. and in India. The particular uses of time that this dissertation addresses include participation in lessons and sports, spending time with mothers, and spending time away from school to support family …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… comparative case study of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an alternative …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… comparative case study of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an alternative …
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Co-ordination of enterprise skill formation: a sociological and historical narrative of professional, market and state initiatives in South Africa
… and historical genesis of enterprise skill formation in South Africa and its effective coordination. South Africa’s late nineteenth century development as an emerging economy contributed to the state often taking the lead and being at the forefront of efforts to ensure coordination in …
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Essays on Parental Migration and Child Development
… on the dynamics of children's cognitive skill formation from birth until the end of the developmental stage at age 14. I estimate the model using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey via Simulated Maximum Likelihood. I find that children's cognitive skill formation is sensitive to …
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Why some were so fast while others not : speed of entry as a new competitive asset in late-industrialization
… we have approached it from the perspective of skill formation. Accordingly, we have investigated how some latecomers have quickly learned new skills and connected their existing technical knowledge with a new stock of knowledge, defining the speedy (latecomer) entrant as the first latecomer …
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Modelling the Relationship between Parental Behaviour and Childhood Skill Development: Empirical Evidence from the UK and Canada
… trajectories of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in primary school children and capture the role that parenting plays in the joint evolution of these skills. This framework draws on theoretical models and empirical findings from the fields of economics, psychology and education. …
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Technologies, labour markets and workers: three essays on the consequences of technological change on labour
… control and whether these patterns vary across skill groups and task profiles in German workplaces. Empirically, the thesis integrates large-scale survey evidence covering multiple European countries with linked employer-employee administrative and survey data from Germany. This design enables …
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Rewards to skill supply, skill demand and skill match-mismatch: Studies using the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills survey
… studies. The focus is on the potential causes of skill mismatch, the extent of skill mismatch, the socio-demographic make-up of skill mismatch, and the consequences of skill mismatch in terms of earnings as well as employer sponsored adult education/training. A distinction is made between skill …
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Early Childhood Human Capital
… NCLB act on students' test scores in untargeted skills such as non-cognitive skills and science; and second, the effect on the distribution of students' test scores. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten data set, I implement the difference-in-difference methodology between …
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Using Sen's Capability Approach to Understand Students' Vocational Education and Training Experience in China
… the rapid production of entry- and mid-level skills to leverage the demographic dividend, focusing on quantity over quality. This legacy of stratified and supply-driven provision created structural path dependencies that constrained later reforms. From the 2000s onward, with marketisation and …
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Childcare Choices and Early Cognitive Development
… positive effects on children's early cognitive skills. Identifying beneficial characteristics of changes in market variables is especially relevant in a policy environment where the main priority of tax incentives related to the use of childcare is not facilitating the formation of children's …