General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition
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- Ofer Malamud & Cristian Pop-Eleches, 2008. "General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition," Working Papers 0807, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
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JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- P20 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2008-07-14 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2008-07-14 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2008-07-14 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2008-07-14 (Transition Economics)
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