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Immigrant Concentration in Schools: Consequences for Native and Migrant Students
Schneeweis, Nicole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
school-grades with a higher share of migrant students, while natives are not affected on average. These negative spill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627852
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Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Zölitz, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086479
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015500
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Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814477
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Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy
Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using unique Italian panel data, in which individual differences in behavior toward risk are measured from answers to a lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can explain differences in schooling attainments. We formulate the schooling decision process as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762083
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Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment
Pfeifer, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This research note uses two German data sets – the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires – to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822308
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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable (with error), we investigate the effect of risk aversion on the probability of entering higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822705
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A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Pfeifer, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762412
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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on tracking timing and track allocation mechanisms reveal that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990917
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Job Search as a Determinant of Graduate Over-Education: Evidence from Australia
Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
graduates. Using a panel estimation method, we find that using universities' career offices is associated with a reduced …. These results are robust to alternative specifications and estimation techniques. As over-education is characterised by high …
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