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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators

Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends on the contribution of youth to national...

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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Demographic transition creates a small window for countries to leverage their demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the population pyramid shows signs of maturity and bulges in...

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General equilibrium models on skill acquisition and economic development: some comments

Bobkova, Nina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Deme et al. (2005, DFN) present a general equilibrium model for the case of Lesotho with a rising step skill acquisition function. DFN show that only a large amount of government expenditure on education, training and skill acquisition can pull the economy out of its inertia. As a comment on...

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Wages and Higher Education Participation

Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; Athanasiou, George; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

. Specifically it examines the effect of wage earned by high school graduates on higher education participation. The model pinpoints … a positive relation between the “high school” wage and the number of candidates entered in higher education with …

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Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective

O'Higgins, Niall - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This study discusses in depth the youth unemployment "problem" and examines the various policy responses to it, including education and training, and active labour market policy. It emphasizes the need for adequate labour market information, policy monitoring and programme evaluation to help...

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Fixing Europe's youth unemployment and skills mismatch, can public financial support to SMEs be effective? The case of the European Commission and European Investment Bank joint in...

Floreani, Vincent Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

“We risk having a generation that hasn’t held a job. Personal dignity comes from working [...] Young people are in a crisis". Pope Francis - July the 22nd, 2013. Youth unemployment is a critical issue across the European Union with 5.5 million people unemployed among the 18-24 years age...

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Government Intervention in Postsecondary Education in Bulgaria

Bonev, Pavlin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper, based on report published by the Bulgarian National Audit Office with reference to public university graduates entering the labor market, I try to outline possible ways to overcome labor market failure problem forced by inefficient public university funding. It is the Bulgarian...

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The Determinants of Participation in Adult Education and Training in Canada

Hui, Taylor Shek-wai; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

school, are working full time, and work at large firms, acquire more training, often with financial help from their employers …

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Incentive to discriminate? An experimental investigation of teacher incentives in India

Jain, Tarun; Narayan, Tulika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We address the challenge of designing performance-based incentive schemes for schoolteachers. When teachers specialize in different subjects in the presence of social prejudice, performance based pay which depends on the average of student performance can cause teachers to coordinate their...

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