Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,532
Cover Image
Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2007
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268502
Cover Image
The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269830
Cover Image
A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010
The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269874
Cover Image
How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141
Cover Image
Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270614
Cover Image
Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle: a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique - 2007
This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268115
Cover Image
Between meritocracy and ethnic discrimination: the gender difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268621
Cover Image
Training in Europe
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261638
Cover Image
Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003
Papps, Kerry L. - 2004
was partially offset by changes in the distribution of these characteristics. Between-gender inequality fell with respect … to both samples. In contrast to within-gender inequality, this was largely explained by changes in the returns to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262116
Cover Image
Rooms of One?s Own : Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States
Sedo, Stanley A.; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2004
and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are … associated with differences that are larger than those based solely on gender and are as large as those associated solely with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262140