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Career Changers in Teaching Jobs : A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System
Hof, Stefani - 2011
This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The … a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to work in teaching, every vocational teacher has to change his or her … initial career. This paper focuses on the relevance of monetary motives for changing a career to teaching. Using a unique data …
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The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education Over the Life Cycle : Evidence from Two British Cohorts
Brunello, Giorgio - 2015
Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016218
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099678
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Labor Productivity and Vocational Training : Evidence from Europe
Sala, Hector - 2011
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent vocational training has contributed to increase the growth rate of labor productivity in Europe between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117615
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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139717
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The Quiet Revolution and the Family : Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns
Bicakova, Alena - 2014
It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use variation in gender composition of fields of study implied by the recent expansion of tertiary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058304
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Instruction Time, Information, and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Andersen, Simon Calmar - 2019
Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers about their students' reading achievements by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863811
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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925495
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The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Berger, Eva M. - 2020
in regular school teaching by a randomized educational intervention involving a sample of 6–7 years old first graders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831238
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Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support : Evidence from Pathways to Education
Lavecchia, Adam - 2019
We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...
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