Education and economic performance: Simplistic theories and their policy consequences

By A. Wolf. 2004

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Natural Learning in Higher Education (2010, background): “Wolf (2004) summarized such studies; these correlated countries’ expenditures on education (up to 91 countries in one study) with their economic growth over a given time period.”
Education, migration, and job satisfaction: The regional returns of human capital in the EU. Bruges European Economic Research (BEER) Papers 1/November 2004 (2004, background): “Her results show that the allocation of educational resources matters for economic growth, which balances the predominant idea of education as an unquestionable positive investment (Wolf, 2004).”
Workforce Skills and Innovation: An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 55. (2011, background): “In addition it is difficult to square the claim of a generalised rise in the demand for skills with studies that suggest credentialism and over-qualification are widespread in developed economies (Brynin 2002; Wolf 2004; Green and Zhu, 2010).”
PISA for Development: how the OECD and World Bank shaped education governance post-2015 (2018, methodology): “…no correlation between cognitive levels (scores on international large-scale assessments) and economic growth over time (e.g. Kamens 2015; see also Wolf 2004), while Komatsu and Rappleye (2017) describe the Hanushek findings used to support the World Bank and OECD agenda as based on ‘flawed…”