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is therefor “Does changing schools adversely affect the subsequent performance of good students in the Netherlands?” Our … change schools. The discrepancy is greater still in the MAVO (lower general secondary education) programs. MAVO students are … more likely to transfer to less competitive programs than their counterparts who do not change schools. They also repeat …
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, for both 15-year-old native pupils and pupils with an immigrant background. A larger ethnic diversity of schools in … systems. The sociocultural diversity of schools does not have an effect on educational performance, but these effects are … educational level of schools is very important for the educational performance of children, and this hardly differs between …
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Virtual Mobility among two or more educational institutions offers students a virtual trip abroad. There is an … coordinators within the EU. The research was part of the MoreVM project which aims at facilitating the virtual mobility …, encouraging participation and enhancing efficiency of virtual mobility in higher education. The central focus was on the position …
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labour market. Thirdly, we propose a measure of mobility based on our similarity measure, and estimate a regression model … that relates mobility to worker and job characteristics and to the economic cycle. Finally, these tools are included in an …
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Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility … accounts. This would have macroeconomic benefits and provide a solid pension provision that can enhance mobility, instead of …
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research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … studies’, while research should cover migration as a whole, migration and mobility being analysed from different points of … workers’ mobility at the European level. The waves of illegal immigrants arriving continuously on the Spanish, Italian and …
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examine the ‘sorting’ mechanisms of schools and tracks in highly stratified, moderately stratified, and comprehensive …
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There is a large body of literature on the effect of educational resources on student performance, such as teacher qualification, class size, and physical resources in school. It is dominated by empirical studies which often find ambiguous effects of resource spending on student outcomes. The...
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This paper examines the mathematical abilities of 15-year olds in a range of countries which participated in the 2003 cycle of the OCED’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Utilising information on the scores obtained by individual students in the mathematical part of the...
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of the associated costs and prospective benefits from doing so. We analyze how competition between schools affects … paper. We argue that schools in metropolitan areas with short ways to school and many potential students face fiercer … argument by an empirical analysis of student performance in various matura schools in Switzerland. …
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