Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2020

20/6/20: COVID19 Impact on Learning & Education

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McKinsey's handy graphic summarizing expected and actual outcomes of the racial inequality in terms of access to learning and educatio...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

6/5/20: H1B Visas and Local Wages: Undercutting Human Capital Returns

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The Economic Policy Institute published an interesting piece of research on the links between H1B visas and lower wages paid by the U.S. e...
Friday, June 8, 2018

8/6/18: Human Capital, Twin Secular Stagnations and Education Investments

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I have written a lot about the twin secular stagnations hypothesis that I defined few years ago as a combination of two separate secular s...
Monday, April 9, 2018

8/4/18: U.S. economy: entrepreneurship is not 'the new thing' outside Academia

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These days, every business school on every university campus is sporting a burgeoning post-graduate program in Entrepreneurship. And this ...
Friday, February 23, 2018

23/2/18: Ireland's Migration Policies are Working Well

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How to do immigration policy right? Ireland's CSO has published some new data on educational attainment in Ireland, covering 2017 resu...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

17/4/16: Peer Effects in Classroom: The Value of Better Discipline?

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In workplace, as well as in education, peer-pressure and competition, peer-linked cooperation and collaboration and other peer-linked effe...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

4/10/15: IBM: Some Tough Numbers on Higher Education Success

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IBM Institute for Business Value Higher Education Survey 2015 with results published in June 2015 has been quite an interesting read. The ...
Monday, January 5, 2015

5/1/2015: The Value of Better Teachers

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Hanushek, Eric A. and Piopiunik, Marc and Wiederhold, Simon, paper, " The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teache...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

17/5/2014: ESRI on Education & Training in Ireland

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ESRI released " Further Education and Training in Ireland: Past, Present and   Future " ( http://www.esri.ie/publications/latest...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

15/9/2013: WLASze Part 2: Weekend Links on Arts, Sciences and zero economics

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Due to time constraints of yesterday's TEDx talks ( http://www.tedxdublin.com/ ), I had a shorter version of WLASze: Weekend Links on ...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

3/8/2013: Humanities: Don't Just Discount the Vital Set of Skills

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Over a month ago, I wrote in the Sunday Times about the topic of balance in education between the humanities and sciences and led this poin...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

2/7/2013: Sunday Times, June 30, 2013: Irish education system reforms

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from June 30, 2013. Note: an interesting related article on human capital and val...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

13/5/2013: Work Hours, Education Years and Wages

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A fascinating fact: "An average person born in the United States in the second half of the 19th century completed 7 years of schoolin...
Friday, February 3, 2012

3/2/2012: De Kaufman Door 1

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Kaufman Foundation - a research centre for studying entrepreneurship - runs quarterly reports on the panel of economics bloggers. These rep...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

How (not) to spin data

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The latest press-release from CSO’s QNHS-based analysis of Q2 2002 – Q2 2008 data on educational attainment sounds self-congratulatory: “In...