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Hussaini, Nilofer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
South Asian economies has witnessed very slow growth over the years and the gap has widened manifold between other nations of Asia particularly East Asian nations and South Asian nations. This paper examines co-integration between the economic growth and reach of higher education in South Asian nations explaining this disparity. The research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Correlation
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López Castellano, Fernando; García-Quero, Fernando; García-Carmona, Marina – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
Current discussions about education suggest that a transformative pedagogy that goes beyond the acquisition of knowledge and skills is needed. However, there is no agreement as to the inputs needed for a correct development of the educational model. In this sense, we can identify the presence of two different approaches to human and social capital…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Capital, Role of Education, Economic Development
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Forsyth, Hannah – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This paper explores the economic and social effects of human capital investment in the 20th century. As well as drawing on census data and statistical yearbooks in Australia and Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the paper develops its argument by an intersection of scholarly work in sociology, economics and the history of education to consider the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Economic Factors, Social Influences, Land Settlement
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Kara, Ahmet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
This paper develops a human capital-based structural equation model to analyze the mediocre-quality, low-productivity, and low-performance levels characterizing large subsets of universities in developing countries. Using a structural equation model, we have first specified one particular way in which overall university performance might be…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Universities, Human Capital, Structural Equation Models
Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold; T. Scott Murray – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to replicate the IALS-based analysis by Coulombe, Tremblay and Marchand (2004) as well as Coulombe and Tremblay (2006) based on more recent and more comprehensive data on the literacy skills of the adult population. Results from panel estimations over the period 1970-2010…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Economic Development, Correlation
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Klees, Steven J. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
Piketty's "Capitalism in the twenty-first century" provides a superb, detailed historical analysis of the evolution of income and wealth inequality. Piketty demonstrates vast and increasing inequality that he argues might possibly be tempered in the future by economic growth and educational expansion supplemented by government…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Economics, Social Systems, Criticism
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Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jo – Education Economics, 2019
We focus on human capital measured by skills and analyse its relationship with R&D investments and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 industries. We compute a measure of sectoral human capital defined as the average cognitive skills of the workforce in each country-sector combination. The variation in labour productivity that can be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Research and Development, Productivity, Cross Cultural Studies
Baron, E. Jason; Kantor, Shawn; Whalley, Alexander – Hamilton Project, 2018
In contrast to the observed convergence in incomes between high- and low-income areas throughout much of the 20th century, recent decades have seen an increased clustering of economic activity that has led to diverging fortunes of different places. This phenomenon has revived interest in place-based policies that seek to revitalize lagging…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Productivity, Educational Development, Educational Policy
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Charles, Matthew – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2018
Although, as a result of the introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework, the principle of teaching excellence is receiving renewed attention in English higher education, the idea has been left largely undefined. The cynic might argue, in agreement with Bill Readings, that this lack of a precise definition is deliberate, since teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness
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Mohan, Preeya – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Technical efficiency is the ability of a firm to produce its maximum output using a set of inputs or to minimise the use of its inputs to produce a certain level of output. When a firm is operating at its most efficient, operating costs can be minimised, profits maximised and competitiveness improved. This study investigates the role of a firm's…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Productivity, Innovation, Role
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Allatt, Gwyneth; Tett, Lyn – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
We draw on theories of policy enactment to explore the ways in which the situated, material and external contexts and professional cultures in adult literacy in the UK have influenced practitioners. Our analysis of the transnational (OECD, EU) and UK external policy contexts found that skills-related education is prioritised, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Literacy Education, Job Skills
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Wallder, Stephen R.; Brown, Nardia J. – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2019
This paper explores the experience, impression and understanding of student centred learning by 44 business education students at a university in Jamaica. The study sought to establish whether such a learning approach enhances the competencies of students in accord with the demands made by employers for critical employee characteristics in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning, Higher Education, College Students
Manjounes, Cindy Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Some public university systems are considering abolishing tenure as a cost-saving mechanism, but little is known about how this change may impact organizational outcomes related to faculty retention and research productivity. Using Almendarez' human capital theory, the purpose of this concurrent mixed methods study was to explore how tenure…
Descriptors: Tenure, Higher Education, College Faculty, Productivity
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Brajkovic, Lucia – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The notion that investment in human capital is associated with better economic outcomes was coined in the U.S. and is assumed to translate equally across nations regardless of countries' socio-economic and political situation. The purpose of this study is to examine whether human capital tenets hold in European countries that transitioned from…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Systems, Educational Attainment, Higher Education
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Cui, Sheng; Pan, Kunfeng; Ye, Yangyong – ECNU Review of Education, 2018
Purpose: English language skills have great influence on labors' earnings from the global perspective. To reveal the economic returns to English language ability in Chinese labor market, we investigate how the global English test certificate affects college graduates' wage. Design/Approach/Methods: We adopt the ordinary least squares (OLS) and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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