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School responsiveness to quality rankings : an empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands
Koning, Pierre; Wiel, Karen van der - 2010
This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968611
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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2011
according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search … behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or search intensity, to each other. We compare German native workers with … migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840200
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The effects of entrepreneurship education
Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009
Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922568
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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2011
according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search … behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or search intensity, to each other. We compare German native workers with … migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152789
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Monetary policy committee transparency : measurement, determinants, and economic effects
Hayo, Bernd; Mazhar, Ummad - 2011 - This version: 28 September 2011
This paper studies monetary policy committee transparency (MPCT) based on a new index that measures central bankers' educational and professional backgrounds as disclosed through central bank websites. Based on a novel cross-sectional data set covering 75 central banks, we investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305845
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455040
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458893
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Signaling effects of monetary policy
Melosi, Leonardo - 2016
We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the policy rate signals the central bank's view about macroeconomic developments to price setters. The model is estimated with likelihood methods on a U.S. data set that includes the Survey of Professional Forecasters as a measure of price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559878
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Hoping to win, expected to lose : theory and lessons on micro enterprise development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615069
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452716