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evidenced based health related quality of life (HRQoL) curriculum called Healthy Minds that ran in 34 high schools in England … choose work that involves "people-skills". Overall our work illustrates the potential for later childhood interventions to …
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This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university …
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instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows … students with below average reading skills, emphasizing the need to target interventions toward appropriately skilled students …
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, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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new technologies faster into firms' workplaces. We study technology changes and curriculum updates from an early wave of … effects of adding new technology skills to curricula on the diffusion of these technologies in firms' workplaces (measured by … job advertisements), we use an event study design. Our results show that curriculum updates substantially shorten the time …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection …
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We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
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Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market 'thinness.' We...
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
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