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This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...
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experiments involving thousands of primary and secondary school students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to …-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were not effective with older students. Finally, and perhaps most … incentives, many students put forth low effort on standardized tests, which may create biases in measures of student ability …
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prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in … such an institution characterized by organizational changes and we analyse the determinants of students' e-skills using a … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students' involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …
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A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …
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This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...
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We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...
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The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...
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Thema 'Evaluation of the Actions and Resources of the Competition Authorities' statt. Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis der … Arbeitsvorgabe erst einige Jahre vergangen sind, so hat die Bedeutung der Evaluation von Wettbewerbspolitik seitdem deutlich … methodologischen Überlegungen bestehender Studien, sondern ermöglicht gleichzeitig eine Identifikation von Problemen bei der Evaluation …
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We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects)...
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the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social …
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