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Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World.

The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries of e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arezki, Rabah
Otros Autores: Lui, Herbert, Quintyn, Marc, Toscani, Frederik G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Colección:IMF Working Papers.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries of economy and finance. Our main finding is that there is little heterogeneity across regions when considering a non quality-adjusted measure of education attainment in public administrations. Adjusting our measure for quality, using a country wide academic ranking, reveals important cross-regional hete.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (42 pages)
ISBN:9781475511512
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