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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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effects of being elected into Swedish student union councils on subsequent labor market careers. Marginally elected students …
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Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
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Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education leads to a higher level of occupational advancement and wage growth over time, with mixed international empirical evidence. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly...
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more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily … with ability and reaches 30–40 percentage points for the highest-ability students. 2. Willingness to compete predicts …
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. Using new administrative data for the universe of students in consecutive cohorts in Greece, we find that a higher share of … female neighbors improves both male and female students' high school and university outcomes. We also find that female … students are more likely to enroll in STEM degrees and target more lucrative occupations when they are exposed to a higher …
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
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academic outcomes or skills. Treated students increased their participation in businesses by 5 percentage points, or 17% of the … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools …
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intendedeffects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …
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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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