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This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students’ demand for, as well as opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university...
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This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
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pattern shows up to varying degrees among the three public-sector and one private-sector occupations considered: K-12 teachers …
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significantly affects the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. …
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3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers …
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teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all Swiss universities for the period of 1981 …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases … to the fact that teachers’ salaries are generally high in Switzerland - teachers here enjoy a positive wage differential …
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This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from...
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The question we address in this paper is which factors influence the quitting decision of public sector teachers in … teachers, fit single and competingrisks duration models and examine the influence of relative pay on retention. Surprisingly …, we find that teachers who move to outside employment earn 22% less pay, work longer hours, in largely nonprofessional …
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school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time teachers have …
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