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Direct linkGuilherme Strifezzi Leal; Álvaro Choi – Education Economics, 2023
The effects of affirmative action on the incentives to human capital accumulation are ambiguous from a theoretical perspective and the scarce empirical evidence on the matter provides mixed results. In this paper, we address this issue by investigating the impacts of Brazil's Law of Quotas on the students' performance in the college entrance exam,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Florina Guadalupe Arredondo-Trapero; Eva María Guerra-Leal; Joohee Kim; José Carlos Vázquez-Parra – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This article aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between education for the labor market in the post-pandemic stage and the educational quality of universities, taking as a sample a group of Latin American countries and their main trading partners. Reference is made to the Global Competitiveness Report 2020 of the World…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Educational Quality, Colleges
Waluyo, Budi; Eng, Sothy; Wiseman, Alexander W. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of international scholarship programs for social justice -- a case study of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP), the first model of scholarships for social justice. The human capability approach advanced by Amartya Sen is selected to conceptualize the measurement of the…
Descriptors: Models, Scholarship, Social Justice, Fellowships
Hailemariam, Abebe – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
This article examines the long-run effect of higher education, measured in average years of tertiary schooling, on the level and growth rate of national per capita income. It uses an improved dataset on educational attainments which not only reduces measurement error but also overcomes data comparability issues and allows us to estimate the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Educational History, Human Capital
Baldino, Roberto Ribeiro; Cabral, Tânia Cristina Baptista – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
In Baldino and Cabral (2013) we introduced the concept of qualified labour-power as the commodity produced by the school system. In the present article we outline a quantitative model to evaluate the profit rate of educational programmes. We compare a medical school programme with a teacher education programme at a public university in Brazil,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor, Productivity, Medical Schools
Le, Thanh; Tang, Kam Ki – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991-2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Manufacturing Industry, Technological Advancement, International Organizations
de Oliveira, Alberto; Filho, Gilberto Abrantes – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to compare the schooling levels of individuals with the demands of the Brazilian labour market. The results demonstrate the high probability of compatibility between occupation and schooling levels. But high propensities for under-education were identified associated with the skin colour and position in the family. The…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Probability, Educational Attainment
