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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
OECD Publishing, 2016
Significant variations in educational attainment and labour market outcomes exist not only across OECD countries but also within them. Some regions concentrate the human capital of a country. In particular, many countries' capital regions stand out for their high share of tertiary-educated people. However, overall employment prospects are often…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Indicators, Labor Market, Regional Characteristics
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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
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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