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Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: The role of class size and time-in-term

Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - 2010

This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of 'class size' and time-in-term, other school factors and student...

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Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition

Raiser, Martin; Schaffer, Mark E.; Schuchhardt, Johannes - 2003

The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep changes in the structure of production and employment. This paper uses a simple model of economic...

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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for …

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Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden before the War

Andersson, Fredrik W.; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2022

The Russian war in Ukraine has led to many fleeing the country. The Temporary Protection Directive applies to those … from Ukraine but also those who received a residence permit in Ukraine as a refugee before 24 February 2022, as those who … have fled from Belarus to Ukraine in recent years. We can therefore expect that many refugees will come to Sweden from …

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Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas; Khamis, Melanie; Lehmann, Hartmut; … - 2023

Using data from the four waves of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - ULMS (2003, 2004, 2007 and 2012), we analyze whether workers with a higher willingness to take risks are more likely to select into informal employment contracts. The data permit us to distinguish between five...

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The Effect of Conflict on Refugees' Return and Integration: Evidence from Ukraine

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Giesing, Yvonne; … - 2024

return, and initial return intentions strongly predict actual return. Those who initially plan to settle outside Ukraine … integrate faster. Increased conflict intensity in the home municipality discourages return there, but not to Ukraine as a whole …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …

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