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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels
Dearden, Lorraine; Micklewright, John; Vignoles, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
'League table' information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the average value added by each school. These approaches assume that the information parents and...
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A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Pahnke, André; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...
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How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
Stampini, Marco; Leung, Ron; Diarra, Setou M.; Pla, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African private sector? We present novel estimates of the size of the private sector in 50 African...
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Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affect the probability of homeownership before the recession and …
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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …
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Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions
Rendon, Silvio; Quella, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper we analyze a mechanism that is particularly relevant to the workings of the Great Recession: we explain how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of job search with liquid wealth accumulation and...
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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …
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Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding scheme would do – but that empirically the...
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …
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