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School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes
Marks, Gary; Ainley, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999
Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a … decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971333
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
students at the beginning and end of the school day. The time and date stamps on the photographs were used to track teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123987
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791349
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791888
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Does Education Raise Productivity or Just Reflect It?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
changes in the minimum school leaving age in the 1970s. Using this idea, we find that data in the UK appears to strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791987
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067578
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labour economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this Paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497746
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Earnings Inequality in Australia.
Borland, J.; Kennedy, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
individual-level data from the ABS Income Distribution Survey. It present measures of changes in earnings inequality for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968001
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Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning About Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population.
Kossoudji, S.A.; Cobb-Clark, D.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment opportunities for unauthorized workers. To recognize the commitment that many unauthorized workers had already made to the U.S. labor market, amnesty was granted to approximately 1.7...
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The Decline in Unskilled Employment in UK Manufacturing.
Haskel, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
This paper analyses the decline in unskilled employment in UK manufacturing.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971427