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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728424
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2009
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873325
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
terms of the skill contents of jobs held and the type of payment individuals receive for their work. An increase in school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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Discrimination in grading? : experimental evidence from primary school
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2009
significantly lower grades and lower secondary school recommendations when bearing a Turkish sounding name. -- Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902973
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Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010
particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759769
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Pupil-teacher gender interaction effects on scholastic outcomes in England and the USA
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
The difference between girls and boys academic performance is a major issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Do boys and girls fair better with a teacher of their own gender? This paper investigates the presence of such ‘pupil-teacher gender interactions’ on scholastic performance. We use data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370044
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Violence in European schools : victimization and consequences
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2007
Violence at schools is a well-known problem in many societies. This paper assesses the degree of school violence in 11 … the international TIMSS 2003 and the British longitudinal NCDS data. The level of school violence is high in most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003412058
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Double standards - are disadvantaged students being graded more leniently?
Himmler, Oliver (contributor); Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2007
A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in … a central and in a school specific examination, we can identify the grading policy of individual schools. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447758
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Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland
Beblo, Miriam (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003243039