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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Older men : pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment ; bridge jobs ; baby boom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929123
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Non-standard employment and labour force participation : a comparative view of the recent development in Europe
Schmid, Günther - 2010
This paper presents - in a new way of examination and portrayal - the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding "standard employment relationship" nor of its potential … "precariousness"; it is rather the requirement of increasing variability in employment relations due to rising employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780041
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Soziale Sicherungssysteme und Arbeitsmarktperformanz in der EU ; Teil 1: Hauptergebnisse
Famira-Mühlberger, Ulrike; Budimir, Kristina; Eppel, Rainer - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003957133
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Soziale Sicherungssysteme und Arbeitsmarktperformanz in der EU ; Teil 2: Vertiefende Analyse
Famira-Mühlberger, Ulrike; Budimir, Kristina; Eppel, Rainer - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003957139
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The impact of growth, labour cost and working time on employment : lessons from the French experience
L'Horty, Yannick (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790857
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Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City
Fryer, Roland; Dobbie, Will - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Publicly funded exam schools educate many of the world's most talented students. These schools typically contain higher achieving peers, more rigorous instruction, and additional resources compared to regular public schools. This paper uses a sharp discontinuity in the admissions process at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220644
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School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina
Jackson, C. Kirabo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226937
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Teacher Quality at the High-School Level: The Importance of Accounting for Tracks
Jackson, C. Kirabo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Unlike in elementary school, high-school teacher effects may be confounded with both selection to tracks and unobserved track-level treatments. I document sizable confounding track effects, and show that traditional tests for the existence of teacher effects are likely biased. After accounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401248
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Program Evaluation and Research Designs
DiNardo, John Enrico; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627157