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The impact of television programmes on teenage career aspirations : the 'MasterChef effect'
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2016
cooking reality show MasterChef, in which the chef profession is portrayed as exciting and glamorous. Using panel data methods … and controlling for several potential confounding variables, the analysis attempts to separate the effect of MasterChef … that an increase of one percentage point in the audience of MasterChef is associated with an increase in the proportion of …
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Apprenticeship training and the business cycle
Mühlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Wüest, Adrian - 2009
Dual apprenticeship training is a market-driven form of education at the upper secondary level, taking place in firms as well as in vocational schools. So far, little is known about the impact of the business cycle on the number of apprenticeship programs offered by firms. Using panel-data of...
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Do trustees and administrators matter? : diversifying the faculty across gender lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George; Martin, Mirinda L. - 2009
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932140
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To be or not to be... a scientist?
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2012
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530671
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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? : finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Horizontal mismatch in the labour market of graduates : the role of signalling
Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - 2013
We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether to hire a worker or not conditionally on the signals she sends - field and length of study and high education (HE) institution. The empirical design of our paper builds on...
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
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Selecting or rewarding tachers? : international evidence from primary schools
Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Garrouste, Christelle; … - 2019
Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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Are apprenticeships business cycle proof?
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of youth...
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