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Berufswechsel beim Übergang von der Lehre in den Arbeitsmarkt
Schweri, Juerg; Mueller, Barbara - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
Anhand des Jugend-Längsschnittdatensatzes TREE auf der Basis der PISA-2000-Erhebung untersuchen wir das Vorkommen, die … und die Fähigkeiten der Absolvierenden, gemessen an den Lehrabschlussnoten und den PISA-Testscores. Die Berufswechsler …
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Does Private Tutoring Work? The Effectiveness of Private Tutoring: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
Hof, Stefanie - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014
Private tutoring has become popular all over the world. However, the evidence on the effect of private tutoring is inconclusive, therefore, this paper attempts to improve the existing literature by using nonparametric bounds methods to find out if private tutoring yields any substantial returns...
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The returns to occupation-specific human capital - Evidence from mobility after training
Mueller, Barbara; Schweri, Juerg - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
Using a longitudinal dataset based on the PISA 2000 survey, we analyze the effect of inter-firm and occupational …
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The consequences of being different – Statistical discrimination and the school-to-work transition
Mueller, Barbara; Wolter, Stefan C. - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
a unique longitudinal survey that follows the PISA 2000 students in their educational and work-life career. We test … whether deviance in the PISA test scores from what one would have predicted based on observable characteristics, influences …
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What happened to the PISA 2000 participants five years later?
Wolter, Stefan C.; Bertschy, Kathrin; Cattaneo, Alejandra - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
performance during compulsory education. This paper uses a unique Swiss longitudinal data-set, which includes information on PISA … vocational training, who obtained lower PISA results, are significantly more likely to be in an inadequate employment situation … followed at upper-secondary level that is decisive for the success in the transition. Nevertheless, individual PISA scores have …
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Heterogeneous Returns to Education Over Wage Distribution: Who Prots the Most?
Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013
This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at dierent quantiles of the conditional...
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Shooting for the Stars and Failing: The Effect of College Dropout on Self-Esteem
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Hoeschler, Peter - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014
This study investigates the impact of finishing versus dropping out of college on self-esteem. Using data spanning three decades from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that dropping out of a four-year college significantly decreases self-esteem compared to graduating. In...
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Differences between entrepreneurs and employees in their educational paths
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Tuor Sartore, Simone; Wettstein, … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
This paper examines whether individuals who become either entrepreneurs or employees follow systematically different educational paths to a given educational level. Following Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory, we expect that entrepreneurs aim at a balanced set of different skills (academic or...
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Another Effect of Group Diversity: Educational Composition and Workers’ Pay
Tuor Sartore, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
Drawing on an unusually large set of employer-employee data, we examine how workers’ pay is related to the educational composition within their occupational group. We find that educational composition as measured by the educational diversity and the educational level of an occupational group...
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Beurteilung von Hochschulen anhand der Arbeitsmarktfähigkeit ihrer Absolventen und Absolventinnen: Eine Analyse der Schweizer Universitäten
Wolter, Stefan C.; Diem, Andrea - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
In diesem Aufsatz wird ein methodisches Vorgehen vorgestellt, welches als Grundlage dafür dienen könnte, Universitäten in Bezug auf die Arbeitsmarkttauglichkeit ihrer Absolventen und Absolventinnen zu beurteilen. Hierzu werden verschiedene Indikatoren präsentiert und kritisch reflektiert....
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