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Returns to ICT Skills
Falck, Oliver - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997356
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation … effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142145
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100274
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver - 2015
overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries …
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