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Social background directly impacts educational choice and attainment, but also influences choice and attainment indirectly by affecting school performance. Boudon (1974) described this relationship as primary (indirect) and secondary (direct) effects of social stratification. Based on this...
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We try to explain the differences between the performance (in both reading and math) of 8430 15-year-old daughters and 8526 15-year-old sons in 17 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development destination countries across Europe and Oceania with the PISA 2009 data from 45 origin...
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recommendation as compared to the other recommendations, for students whose parents have a tertiary education degree are between 1 ….6 and 3.6 times greater than for students whose parents only have a primary education degree. For the math exit test score I …
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We estimate the impact of spatial mobility on job match quality by using a data set of recent Dutch university and college graduates We find positive wage returns related to spatial mobility. However, after controlling for the self-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no...
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against othersare exophobicor because they favor their own kindare endophilic This difference matters, as the relative importance of...
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In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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This paper uncovers conspicuous work as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and happiness for Dutch male workers. Using a unique measure of peer weekly working time, we find that mens...
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In dit werkdocument wordt verslag gedaan van een onderzoek naar flexibele arbeid in Nederland. Het onderzoek heeft plaatsgevonden in het kader van het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt. Een gedeelte van dit werkdocument is in geactualiseerde vorm terug te vinden in hoofdstuk 4 van De arbeidsmarkt...
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Het Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA) maakt in het kader van het Arbeidsmarktinformatiesysteem (AIS) iedere twee jaar middellangetermijnprognoses naar opleiding en beroep. De laatste prognoses zijn terug te vinden in De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2014 (ROA,...
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Het Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid heeft het ROA gevraagd om een haalbaarheidsonderzoekuit te voeren naar de kwantificering van de inkomensmobiliteit tussen generaties in Nederland en dekwantificering van de factoren die deze mobiliteit beïnvloeden. Het ROA heeft dit...
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