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Centre-based versus home-based childcare

Bauchmüller R. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

of a largescale cohort studyof children living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennium. TheNetherlands … of parents and children. For both ordinary least square estimates as well as the sensitivity analyses the results do not …

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Education, training and skill development policies in Arab Gulf countries: Macro-micro overview

Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper uses a combination of secondary and primary data to provide a more comprehensive analysis of education, training and skill development policies in the Gulf countries. Different from earlier studies an interesting element in our analysis is that we discuss both the supply and demand...

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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new secondary and primary data. A novel element in our paper is that we use new primary macro and micro (firm) surveys data to discuss and compare the macro and micro perspectives...

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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...

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Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme

Bauchmüller, Robert - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes are presumed to have positive effects in particular for children who are at … child-centred programme which has recently been certified as being 'in theory' effective in raising children's school … child-centred methods and their applications need to be intensified and extended to all disadvantaged groups of children …

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Choosing a career in Science and Technology

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

Student choice is at the center of many discussions about higher education policy. At the same time, and regardless of the emphasis put on achieving an important endowment of graduates trained in science and engineering, participation in these fields is stagnated or declining. Evidence suggests...

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Occupation Choice: Family, Social and Market Influences

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

The advance of knowledge-based societies has modified the labor markets and qualification requirements. In this sense, and considering that individual choices about careers and occupations have pervasive social effects, there is a growing interest from both academics and policy makers in...

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Discovering and explaining work-family strategies of parents in Luxembourg

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

The presented analysis discovers and explains typical patterns of work-family reconciliation for parents who had a child in the same period 2003 and in the same country Luxembourg, thus facing the same macroeconomic and institutional conditions. Work-family trajectories are reconstructed as...

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Parental leave take up and return to work of mothers in Luxembourg: An application of the model of nested dichotomies

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

children after they are born. Therefore it is interesting and important to understand what factors account for womens decision …

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Afghan unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands: Far away from home and protected?

Siegel M.; Buil C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This study aims to provide insights into the migration situation of Afghan unaccompanied minors UAMs in the Netherlands and the extent to which the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child CRC is respected. This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the largest group of UAMs in the...

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