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Tertiary Education and Economic Growth
No full textCHATTERJI M. (1998) Tertiary education and economic growth, Reg. Studies 32 , 349-354. The paper investigates the potential importance of tertiary education in the growth process using the standard data in the field. Previous studies have focused largely on primary and secondary education and have calculated growth rates using only two data points. In this paper these potential anomalies are addressed. All available data are used in calculating growth rates and the scope of the education process is widened to include tertiary education. The results suggest that tertiary education may well have an important role to play in the growth process. CHATTERJI M. (1988)L'enseignement superieur et la croissance economique, Reg. Studies 32 , 349-354. Employant des donnees pertinentes, cet article cherche a examiner l'importance eventuelle de l'enseignement superieur pour ce qui est du processus de croissance. Des etudes anterieures ont porte sur l'enseignement primaire et secondaire et ont calcule des taux de croissance a partir de deux dates seulement. Cet article a pour but d'aborder ces anomalies eventuelles. Pour calculer les taux de croissance, on emploie toutes les donnees disponibles et on elargit la portee du processus d'enseignement pour inclure l'enseignement superieur. Les resultats laissent supposer que l'enseignement superieur pourrait jouer un role important dans le processus de croissance. CHATTERJI M. (1998) Der Tertiare Bildungsbereich und Wirtschaftliches Wachstum, Reg. Studies 32 , 349-354. Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht die potentielle Bedeutung des tertiaren Bildungsbereichs im Wachstumsprozess mittels Standarddaten auf diesem Gebiet. Fruhere Studien haben sich grossenteils auf den Bereich der Grundschulen und Sekundarschulen konzentriert, und haben Wachstumsraten mit Hilfe von zwei Datenpunkten berechnet. Dieser Aufsatz beschaftigt sich mit solchen potentiellen Anomalien. Es werden alle verfugbaren Daten zur Berechnung eingesetzt, und der Rahmen des Bildungsprozesses durch Einbeziehung des tertiaren Bildungsbereiches erweitert. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass der tertiare Bereich durchaus eine Rolle im Wachstumsprozess spielen konnte.Growth, Education, Convergence,
A case study in efficiency wages: Economics of the New Lanark establishment Under Robert Owen’s management (1800-1825)
No full textThe purpose of these notes is to show how labour economics can be used to analyse and understand real economic episodes and events. The case study in question is Robert Owen’s management of the New Lanark Cotton Mills in the 19th century. 30-page Word document including graphs and tables, created to support Labour economics teaching at the University of Dundee.
Education and Economic Development in India
No full textThis brief survey examines the returns to education in India , and then examines the role of education on both economic growth and economic development with particular reference to India. Throughout, the objective is to draw out the implications of the empirical results for education policy. The results suggest that female education is of particular importance in India. They also suggest that perhaps because of the externalities it generates, primary education is more important than might be deduced from its relatively low private rate of return.education, economic growth, economic development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Training hold up and social labour markets
No full textThis paper seeks to analyse the impact on training outcomes of labour markets with a social dimension which enhances workers rights and benefits, including the right to unionise. The ILO in particular champions the cause of such social labour markets both on the grounds that they represent fundamental rights as well as on the grounds that they generate helpful economic outcomes. In the context of on the job training, this paper demonstrates that the benefits of such social labour markets are mixed. In particular, it demonstrates that whilst unionisation can increase productivity and mitigate training hold up, there are also risks to increasing union power
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Flying High and Laying Low in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparison of Pay Differentials for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain
No full textUsing new linked employee-employer data for Britain in 2004, this paper shows that, on average, full-time male public sector employees earn 11.7 log wage points more than their private sector counterparts. Decomposition analysis reveals that the majority of this pay premium is associated with public sector employees having individual characteristics associated with higher pay and to their working in higher paid occupations. Further focussing analysis on the highly skilled and unskilled occupations in both sectors, reveals evidence of workplace segregation positively impacting on earnings in the private sector for the highly skilled, and in the public sector for the unskilled. Substantial earnings gaps between the highly skilled and unskilled are found, and the unexplained components in these gaps are very similar regardless of sector.public sector earnings, male, fixed effects, earnings-gap, decompositions, segregation
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