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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US
Winters, John V. - 2012
suggest that the local human capital level has positive externalities on the probability of labor force participation and …. -- employment ; labor force participation ; human capital externalities ; agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627341
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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US
Winters, John V. - 2013
availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper …Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor … positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities. …
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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …
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