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Endophilia or exophobia: beyond discrimination
Salamanca Acosta N.; Hamermesh D.; Feld J.F. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
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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Gender gaps in primary school achievement. A decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors
Golsteyn B.H.H.; Schils T. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2014
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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Social background's effect of educational attainment: Does method matter?
Büchner C.I.R.; der, Velden R.K.W. van; Wolbers M.H.J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
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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Can gender differences in the educational performance of 15-year old migrant pupils be explained by the gender equality in the countries of origin and destination?
Kornder N.; Dronkers J.; Dronkers J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
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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The pre-tracking effects of parental background
Korthals R.A. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
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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Entry into working life: Spatial mobility and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates
Venhorst V.; Cörvers F. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
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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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences
Zumbühl M.A.; Pfann G.A.; Pfann G.A.; Dohmen T.J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economicpreferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. Weexploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the...
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Verkenning van de mogelijkheden van het gebruik van administratieve data voor het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt
Lex, Borghans; Ben, Kriechel - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2008
In dit werkdocument wordt verslag gedaan van een verkennend onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van het gebruik van administratieve data voor het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt. Een aantal onderdelen van het onderzoek zijn gepubliceerd in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2012...
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An evaluation of the forecast of the indicator of the labour market gap
Arnaud, Dupuy - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009
Th is evaluation study has been conducted within the framework of the Education andLabour Market Project (POA). Th e … project is funded by the Ministry of Education,Culture and Science (OCW), the Institute for Employee Benefi t Schemes (UWV … Education andLabour Market Project for their comments on an earlier version. …
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Measuring Skill-upgrading in the Dutch Labor Market
Arnaud, Dupuy - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006
An important factor of shifts in the skills composition of the workforceis the upgrading of the qualifications demanded in the variousjobs in the economy, the so-called skill-upgrading. This skill-upgradingis principally caused by the development of new technologies that demandmore or different...
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