Trade, Education and Skills: A Theoretical Survey

Rossana Patrón
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Rossana Patrón: Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

No 1006, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: This paper reviews the literature that relates trade, education and skills formation,intending to provide a theoretical background to policy discussions in education matters. The paper is organised as follows. Section 1 summarises the literature on education and human capital in trade models. Section 2 focuses on education as an investment and the process of human capital accumulation. Section 3 deals with the returns to education. Section 4 analyses the economic literature on the education production function and on issues of effectiveness, efficiency and quality. Section 5 discusses the public provision of education. Section 6 presents some concluding remarks.

Keywords: public education; economics of education; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2006-10
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