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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...
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Voluntary work and labour income
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper studies the effect of voluntary work on labour income for Italian employees. The Heckman and Instrumental Variables methods are used in order to control for self-selection bias of participation in labour market and endogeneity of volunteering. The results show that a wage premium of 3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112270
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland
Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790057
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
nature of entrepreneurial talent and the specific role of education in entrepreneurial selection and performance. Empirical … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
sorting between ability and school tenure, the expansion of education implies a decrease in the average ability of students …
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The Impact of Education on the Behaviour of Labor Supply in Cameroon: an Analysis using the Nested Multinomial Logit Model
Ndjobo, Nga; Marie, Patrick; Abessolo, Yves André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article renders an analysis of the impact of education on labour supply behaviour, particularly in terms of … the private formal sectors) choose to work in the sectors which best values their education. Thus, for these individuals …, it is more likely to choose to practice in the sectors associated with lower levels of education than other sectors. Also …
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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
particular towards improving the education and training of people throughout the life cycle. Similarly, in the perspective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262752
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Une analyse systémique de l'évaluation des ressources humaines - réflexions et expérimentations en milieu scolaire
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Evaluation's way is set on a paradox. The feed-back of evaluation would imply - according to a wrong way - the evaluation of the examiner. Systemic Analysis could show the promises and the semantic limits of this technical. It seems to be impossible to measure work's human value through the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789686
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Distribution of Demand for School Quality: Evidence from Quantile Regression
Wada, Roy; Herbert, Zahirovic-Herbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Our results show that high-income families place significantly higher value on academic achievement than low-income families. High-income families are also more likely to penalize house price for non-desirable non-academic school quality. This paper uses quantile regression to examine the...
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence
Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
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