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Venter, Katharine – Journal of Education and Work, 2004
This article argues that China's education system is facing unprecedented pressures to provide appropriately skilled individuals to meet the demands of the rapidly growing economy. In China this is a uniquely complex situation owing to the coexistence of a diminishing command and control economy and a growing market economy. Within this context we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Education Work Relationship, Adult Education
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Mitra, Jay; Matlay, Harry – Industry and Higher Education, 2004
The social, economic and political systems of former communist countries have faced considerable changes since the late 1980s. Most countries in Eastern and Central Europe have undergone their own individual brand of transition from a centrally planned, command system to a more or less liberalized, Western-style market economy. Many observers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Small Businesses, Vocational Education
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Dolton, Peter – Education Economics, 1996
Describes an econometric modeling of the labor market for teachers in an "administered" market setting in which the government partially controls the main determinants of demand and is very influential in setting teachers' wages. Reviews relevant econometric literature and shows market forces' crucial role. Discusses economic policy…
Descriptors: Econometrics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Foreign Countries
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Borland, Melvin V.; Howsen, Roy M. – Education Economics, 2000
Corrects for potential bias and inconsistency in the estimated coefficient on market competition (among schools) by constructing a system of equations with endogenous expressions of student achievement and market competition. Policy makers seeking to improve student achievement should encourage market competition among schools. (Contains 13…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Correction
Benedek, A.; Luttringer, J-M – 1996
Subgroup B of the European Training Foundation's (ETF) Advisory Forum analyzed the role of the private sector in vocational education and training (VET) and focused on the role of the social partners in the transition process. A questionnaire on the role of social partners in the development of training in market economy was sent to 110…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Change, Educational Development, Foreign Countries