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This book considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policy, and employment and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation and ultimately the current and future labour supply. It covers Canada (in...
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of immigrants and their children into their host countries. Each volume presents concrete policy lessons for its theme … OECD countries. This fourth volume explores the integration of young people with migrant parents, a diverse and growing …
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of parents who consider academic achievement very important score 46 points higher in mathematics than the children of …When choosing a school for their child, parents in all participating countries value academic achievement highly; but … they are often even more concerned about the safety and environment of the school and the school’s reputation. The children …
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This report presents the evaluation of a digital training module (“digital aufholen!”) within the school-to-work transition programme JOBLINGE, in the German state of Hesse. The 6-months programme aims to integrate long-term unemployed and otherwise disadvantaged youth into the labour...
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Adult migrants in all OECD countries are a diverse group, with different profiles and levels of education. Even if they hold tertiary degrees, they are more likely to have poorer labour market outcomes, including lower earnings. Participation in the labour market is more difficult for...
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What are students like as learners as they near the end of compulsory education? The answer matters greatly, not only … learners. This report analyses the results, focusing on students’ motivation, self-beliefs and use of various learning …
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will also learn how students reacted to the electronic questionnaire and how it compared with pencil-and-paper tests. In … general, there were no group differences across test methods buts students enjoyed the computer-based test more than the paper …
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effective in fostering students’ sense of belonging and participation in school? These questions are of great concern to … information on students’ literacy skills, but also on their attitudes and values, their social backgrounds, and on important …
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Are students well prepared to meet the challenges of the future? Can they analyse, reason and communicate their ideas … are evaluated: problem solving and financial literacy. Students respond to a background questionnaire and, as an option … the parents through a third optional questionnaire. Sixty-six countries and economies, including all 34 OECD member …
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children of immigrants. Who are the children of immigrants? What do they know and what can they do? How do they differ from … other students? Do they approach school and learning in a different way? It examines more closely the issue of assessment … language proficiency among immigrant students and its possible impact on cognitive outcomes in PISA. It explores the effect of …
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