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The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...
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Overall, the education system fares well by international comparison. Slovenia has one of the highest shares of the population aged 25 to 64 to have completed at least upper secondary education, and ranks high in international educational achievement tests. Nevertheless, in some areas, reforms...
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OECD’s PISA publications highlight the impact of economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) on students’ results … level of economic development, differences in ESCS might account for a substantial amount of France’s gap in average PISA … mesures du statut socio-économique expliquent-ils l'écart observé pour la France dans les résultats aux tests PISA ?<BR …
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Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that … résultats des tests PISA conduisent à penser que les performances du système éducatif restent inchangées et inégales et qu …
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Israel’s education system is complicated by multiple streams at the primary and secondary levels and by military conscription. Population growth and economic expansion have brought a massive increase in demand for all levels of education. Educational attainment statistics are impressive, but...
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Despite progress over the past decades, Greece?s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA …’éducation de la Grèce sont en retrait par rapport à ceux des autres pays de l’OCDE. Les résultats de l’exercice PISA sont médiocres …
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The Australian education system fares well in international comparison with regards to PISA test scores and the higher … les notes obtenues aux épreuves du PISA, et ses établissements d’enseignement supérieur attirent un nombre croissant d …
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2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly by international comparison and socio-economic and/or immigrant … compréhension de l’écrit et en mathématiques selon l’enquête PISA 2006 de l’OCDE, les élèves en difficulté ont généralement des …
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Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the 2003 OECD PISA study, with the performance gap between immigrant and native … the PISA tests suggests that the reforms over the past decade or so to attenuate these difficulties have had considerable … success: the adverse impact of immigrant status on PISA test scores is around the OECD average. The fact that the performance …
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Unconditional and conditional quantile regressions are used to explore the determinants of labour earnings at different parts of the distribution and, hence, the determinants of overall labour earnings inequality. The analysis combines several household surveys to provide comparable estimates...
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