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are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …
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presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and school performance. Though such incentives … the conditional distributions of pay and school outcomes reflect variation in performance that is not observable in the … they may not be directly rewarded, school principals appear to act as agents for students in danger of dropping out. …
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examine its effect on students' scores on the high-stakes national exam which occurs at the end of high school – the … corrupt activities by public school staff, which was driven by financial incentives. These results match an unprecedentedly … high number of allegations of fraud and bribery against school principals, which earned the 2010 Baccalaureate the title of …
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This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of...
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more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …
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In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...
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Unskilled workers in low productivity jobs typically experience higher labour turnover. This paper shows how this … recruiting for low productivity jobs. This generates more separations and higher turnover at the bottom than at the top of the …' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …
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A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the...
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the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
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teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
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