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Can gifted and talented education raise the academic achievement of all high-achieving students?
Booij, Adam S.; Haan, Ferry; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2017
We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted and talented (GT) program with selective program admission based on past achievement. We construct three complementary estimates of the program's impact on student achievement....
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...
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Keep me in, coach : the short- and long-term effects of targeted academic coaching
Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Mouganie, Pierre; … - 2022
To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring …. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively … lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …
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Human capital externalities and growth of high- and low-skilled jobs
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006
In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, but this need not indicate localized human capital externalities are at work. A large initial share...
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A history of Canadian recruitment of highly skilled immigrants : circa 1980 - 2001
DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2006
This paper identifies the types of immigrants that Canada has recruited to foster modern Canadian economic development and assesses how effective Canada has been in recruiting and retaining these required immigrants in the 21st century. Evidence from both "balance of trade" and "balance of...
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Self-selection and earnings of emigrants from a welfare state
Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - 2009
Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest : evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John K. (contributor);  … - 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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Openness and technological innovation in East Asia : have they increased the demand for skills?
Almeida, Rita - 2009
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902447