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is measured in three ways: first, the time it takes to complete civil education and the level of education acquired … further find that longer military service does not prolong the attainment of civil education and does not cause a reduction in …
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-owned firms have a longer and higher education than the personnel of domestic non-multinational firms. Foreign-owned firms pay …
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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … importance of relative education as an explanatory variable in a Mincerian- style wage equation. I find the conclusions of this … method to be dependent on the reference group used in defining relative education. Consequently also the second method yields …
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education and higher income. At the same time, we do not find a significant correlation between locus of control and labor …
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Educational accountability is a timely topic in Hungary, because the law of LXXI/2006 has practically introduced educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or 10th grade. These report cards publicize information...
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
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education in recent decades. The research results are based on the linked employer-employee data of Statistics Finland, company … findings of the study suggest that adult education differs according to the level of education, and that companies' investments …
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education and higher income. At the same time, we do not find a significant correlation between locus of control and labor …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in Latin America. In 1998, about a third of the population was poor, and one sixth extreme poor. This represents 179 million poor people, of which 89 million lived in extreme poverty. The share of the populatio
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The purpose of the research is to analyze and investigate the interest of primary school pupils in natural science topics within primary school subject fields. Examining the existing curricula, it becomes evident that natural science topics are intertwined in different subject fields. Based on...
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