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| Title: | | Skill policies for Scotland  |
| Authors: | | Heckman, James Joseph Masterov, Dimitriy V. |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working papers 1390 |
| Abstract: | | This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early interventions have proven to be very effective in compensating for the effect of neglect. Improvements in traditional measures of school quality, tuition subsidies, company-sponsored and public job training are unlikely to be as effective. We review the evidence and present several policy recommendations. |
| JEL: | | I21 J31 I28 I22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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