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The impact of television programmes on teenage career aspirations : the 'MasterChef effect'
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2016
cooking reality show MasterChef, in which the chef profession is portrayed as exciting and glamorous. Using panel data methods … and controlling for several potential confounding variables, the analysis attempts to separate the effect of MasterChef … that an increase of one percentage point in the audience of MasterChef is associated with an increase in the proportion of …
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The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations : The 'Masterchef Effect'
Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2016
cooking reality show MasterChef, in which the chef profession is portrayed as exciting and glamorous. Using panel data methods … and controlling for several potential confounding variables, the analysis attempts to separate the effect of MasterChef … an increase of one percentage point in the audience of MasterChef is associated with an increase in the proportion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996538
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Cyclical occupational choice in a model with rational wage expectations and perfect occupational mobility
Felderer, Bernhard; Drost, André - 2000
In many professional labor markets the number of new workers follows a cyclical time path. This phenomenon is usually explained by means of a cobweb model that is based on the assumptions of myopic wage expectations and occupational immobility. Since both assumptions are questioned by the...
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Do firms benefit from apprenticeship investments?
Lerman, Robert - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Are apprenticeships valuable for firms? Economists once thought that firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often competing, firms. Now, researchers recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Firms gain from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404879
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools
Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Garrouste, Christelle; … - 2019
Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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Do firms benefit from apprenticeship investments?
Lerman, Robert - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
Economists have long believed that firms will not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often competing, firms. Researchers now recognize that firms that invest in apprenticeship training generally reap good returns. Evidence indicates that financial returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120543
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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers? Work Hours?
Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter - 2004
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers? hours are largely chosen at the worker?s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate
Büchel, Felix - 2002
The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is applied to estimate simultaneously the quality of the school-toapprenticeship transition and that...
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