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single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit …
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We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … school attainment mainly because it is associated with lower resources (household income) available for the child. …
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)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
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This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...
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The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...
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mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place over the past 20 years, comparing the state of play in the Netherlands …
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measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out …, status quo bias in the Netherlands is one-half of the German value, suggesting that Dutch consumers were indeed made to bear …
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the probability of attending school and decrease the probability of combining work and school, particularly for boys; the … probability of being in school for secondary school children was about 6 percent higher in 2002 than in 1998. These estimates … children in provinces fully implementing the FEL were 3 percent more likely to be in school and 1.6 percent points less likely …
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This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that … changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school … the distribution of students over schools changed dramatically as a response to extending school choice. As expected, the …
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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