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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...
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Are universities important for explaining unequal participation in student mobility? : a comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Bastianelli, Elena; Blasko, Zsuzsa - 2020
uptake. It goes beyond existing research by not only focusing on individual choices but also on university characteristics …, like university segregation, excellence and student support. In addition, the study is novel in comparing rich graduate … survey and administrative data merged with university level ETER data across four countries. Multilevel regression results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202811
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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Teaching accreditation exams reveal grading biases favor women in male-dominated disciplines in France
Breda, Thomas; Hillion, Melina - 2016
Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. We show that this is not the case at the competitive exams used to recruit almost all French secondary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517679
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Did the Bologna Process challenge the German apprenticeship system? : evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020
. Approximately 29% of new apprentices are university-eligible graduates from academic-track schools. We evaluate the effects of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305204
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Why do French engineers find stable jobs faster than PhDs?
Margolis, David N.; Miotti, Egidio Luis - 2017
This paper studies why PhDs in France take longer to find stable jobs than engineers. Using data from CEREQ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772338
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Estimating a model of qualitative and quantitative education choices in France
Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - 2018
) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98). The average per …
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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Stealing to survive? : crime and income shocks in 19th century France
Bignon, Vincent; Caroli, Eve; Galbiati, Roberto - 2014
Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413664
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In-state college enrollment and later life location decisions
Winters, John V. - 2018
State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...
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