This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage skill differentials and public social ...

The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues of endogeneity of schooling and its heterogeneous returns we apply two e...

This article describes a new meaning of the Hybrid Learning (also known as the Blending Learning or Blended Learning), pointing out that the new meaning to be proposed and be widely recognized shows that the educational ideas of current international educational circles is undergoing a profound change, but also is an important symbol for further development of the “IT in Education” theory. Auth...

abstract background: patient education is among the lowest met need of patients in iran; therefore, expansion of that role can result in greater professional accountability. this study aimed to explain the practical science of the process, structure, and outcomes of a nurse‑led action research project to expand the nurses’ role in patient education in iran. materials and methods: this study was...

During the past few decades South Korea has experienced a remarkable expansion in its educational system, distinctive that there has been an extraordinary increase in both quantity and quality of education. Along with dramatic differences between the educational attainment of recent and older cohorts, educational policies that have emphasized competition and growth rather than equality of educa...

Many communitarians deplore the expansion of the market beyond its traditional confines, turning our market economy into a market society. We should go beyond the narrow view of pure economic rationality, as market expansion may cause repugnance and crowd out morality and intrinsic motivation. This paper extends the traditional economic analysis to incorporate such wider effects. This does not ...

In this paper we analyze how an individual should optimally invest in human capital when he also has financial wealth. We treat the individual’s option to take more education as expansion options and apply real option analysis. We characterize the individual’s optimal consumption strategy and portfolio weights. The individual has a demand for hedging financial risk, labor income risk, and also ...

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