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Evaluating students' evaluations of professors
Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278317
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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009
students, but peasants were more risk averse. Testing for the effect of socio-economic variables on uncertainty attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268949
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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262570
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2010
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269669
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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271271
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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are defined by groups with similar levels of experience and education (or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271579
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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants: a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration
Jasso, Guillermina; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - 2008
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed countries. Our approach emphasizes the key roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276392
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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289873
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Markets for reputation: evidence on quality and quantity in academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...
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