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The 'Healthy Worker Effect' : Do Healthy People Climb the Occupational Ladder?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

larger than that of an upper secondary education …

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'Cultural Persistence' of Health Capital : Evidence from European Migrants

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of...

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Does Insurance Expansion Alter Health Inequality and Mobility? Evidence from the Mexican Seguro Popular

Costa-Font, Joan - 2018

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both...

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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence

Costa-Font, Joan - 2015

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the hypothesis of an...

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The Measurement of Health Inequalities : Does Status Matter?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view

Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …

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Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

A general conclusion of the youth job training programme (YJTP) evaluationliterature is that these programmes are more effective when completed. Yet,YJTPs suffer from substantial dropout problems. This paper studies the extent ofthe dropout phenomenon and under which circumstances dropout is...

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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas, Ammermüller; Hans, Heijke; Ludger, Wöszmann - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …

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Job-training programmes with low completion rates: The case of Projoven-Peru

de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010

Projoven is an ongoing Peruvian youth job-training programme started in 1996and conducted in successive waves or ‘public calls’. The programme has twophases of instruction: i) three months of classroom training, followed by ii) threemonths of on-the-job training internship. From 1997 to...

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