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This paper investigates how students’ collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success …. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is … using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage …
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quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …
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-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective …
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persistence, the role of university career services and fairs in screening and matching the skills of graduands with the needs of …
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The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index for the 2000–2009 period. The novel feature of the paper is that a count data model quantifies...
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Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
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Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however …
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completing an internship while attending university. Employing longitudinal data from graduate surveys, we find positive and …
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Lifelong learning represents a key response to the demographic challenge in Germany. In terms of professional success, not only hard skills but also soft skills hold importance. Indeed, the OECD competence tests PISA and PIAAC have come to the fore, although acquired skills are still relevant....
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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...
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