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Elección de ocupación: factores personales y aspectos sociales

Tacsir, Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The advancement towards knowledge-based societies has modiﬁed the labor markets and qualiﬁcation requirements. In this sense, and considering that individual choices about careers and occupations have pervasive social eﬀects, there is a growing interest from both academics and policy...

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How effective are Los Angeles elementary teachers and schools?

Buddin, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This study uses value-added methods to examine the effectiveness of Los Angeles elementary teachers and schools. The results show that teacher effectiveness varies substantially across the school district. Most of the variance in teacher effectiveness is within schools and not across schools....

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Impact of Training on Earnings: Evidence from Pakistani Industries

Asma, Hyder; Javaid, Zainab - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Abstract Training and skills development play a vital role in individual’s productive capacity and are integral part of … Human Resource Development (HRD). This study aims to examine the role of training in determination of wages. By utilizing … the cross-sectional data from Labor Force Survey 2005-06, results have shown that training is not significant in the …

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The Choice of For-Profit College

Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this paper I investigate whether students self-select into the US for-profit colleges or whether the choice of for-profit sector is accidental or due to the reasons external to the students (geographic exposure to for-profit providers, tuition pricing, or random circumstances). The main...

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The Effects of For-Profit College Training on Earnings

Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this paper, I obtain the estimates of the effects of for-profit training and credentials on students' annualized … multinomial model of selection into for-profit postsecondary training. To identify the selection into for-profit training, I use … significant effects of for-profit Associate degrees for males are due to the unrelated vocational training. …

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For-Profit Student Heterogeneity

Chung, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this study, I use three data sets collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): National Postsecondary Student Aid Studies of 1996, 2000 and 2004 (NPSAS:96,NPSAS:2000, and NPSAS:04) to derive the characteristics of the students in the US...

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'Content to be sad' or 'runaway apprentice'? The psychological contract and career agency of young scientists in the entrepreneurial university

Lam, Alice; de Campos, Andre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article examines employee agency in psychological contracts by exploring how young scientists proactively shape their careers in response to unmet expectations induced by academic entrepreneurialism. It uses the lens of social exchange to examine their relationships with the professors...

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Erfolg und Erfolgsfaktoren freiberuflich tätiger Ärzte Ergebnisse der FFB-Ärzteumfrage für Niedersachsen

Ackermann, Dagmar; Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Das Interesse am Gesundheitswesen hat in den vergangenen Jahren erheblich zugenommen. Politik und Gesellschaft müssen sich einer Auseinandersetzung mit den Strukturen des Gesundheitswesens, insbesondere mit den Aufgaben und deren Vergütung, die von den verschiedenen Leistungsanbietern erbracht...

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The Selection of Skills into Sectors: Evidence from the Market for Economists

Boehm, Michael J.; Watzinger, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We study the selection of skills into sectors in an environment with (1) exogenous variation in the attractiveness of … sectors and (2) good measurability of skills. More concretely, we examine how the selection into leading economics PhD … programs varies with the business cycle and we measure PhD’s skills by their publication success. Our results strongly support …

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The Allocation of Talent: Evidence from the Market of Economists

Boehm, Michael J.; Watzinger, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Recent research in labor economics has highlighted the substantial and long-lasting adverse effect of recessions on employment prospects and earnings. In this paper, we study whether individuals react to these shocks by changing career paths and thereby affect the selection of talent into...

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