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This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...
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data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being … students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation …
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students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …
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Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...
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Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … mediator – students who rank high in math are more likely to choose STEM subjects in school and this can partly explain their …
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outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …
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College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...
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