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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019

This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education...

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Teacher hiring instruments and teacher value added : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Méndez, Carolina; … - 2020

In this article, we explore whether the evaluation instruments used to recruit teachers in the national teacher hiring process in Peru are good predictors of teacher effectiveness. To this end, we estimate teacher value-added (TVA) measures for public primary school teachers in 2018 and test for...

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Teacher policies, incentives, and labor markets in Chile, Colombia, and Perú : implications for equality

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; … - 2018

This paper contributes to the teacher sorting literature by analyzing equity in the distribution of teachers in three educational systems in Latin America, with different equalization policies, teacher assignment rules, and incentives to work in disadvantaged schools: Chile, Colombia, and Peru....

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Does rewarding pedagogical excellence keep teachers in the classroom? : evidence from a voluntary award program

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ramos, Alejandra - 2018

We analyze the effects on teacher retention and between school mobility of a program that rewards excellence in pedagogical practice in Chile. Teachers apply voluntarily for the award and those who succeed on a set of assessments receive a 6 percent annual wage increase for up to 10 years. We...

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Can financial incentives help disadvantaged schools to attract and retain high-performing teachers? : evidence from Chile

Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Hincapié, Isabel; … - 2019

The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic achievement gaps in Latin America. The Chilean Pedagogical Excellence Assignment (AEP, for its Spanish acronym) is a unique program in the region that provides monetary...

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Specific human capital and skills in Indian manufacturing: observed wage and tenure relationships from a worker survey

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Abhishek, Kumar - 2020

It is an overarching and persistent fact that job creation in the Indian manufacturing sector has fallen short of the growth in the workforce. The successive governments since 2009 onwards have attempted to initiate policies to enhance the growth in employment along with quality of jobs in the...

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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments

Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019

This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...

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Skills or a degree? : the rise of skills-based hiring for AI and green jobs

Ehlinger, Eugenia Gonzalez; Stephany, Fabian - 2023

For emerging professions, such as jobs in the fi eld of artifi cial intelligence (AI) or sustainability (green), labour supply does not meet industry demand. In this scenario of labour shortages, our work aims to understand whether employers have started focusing on individual skills rather than...

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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as ‘labor intensive industries’ within India’s organized …

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Do labor intensive industries generate employment? : evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863447

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