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This article reports the results of an experiment aiming to investigate the effect of training on the performance of poor students in PAA, a compulsory multiple-choice test required to enroll in university education in Chile. The main conclusion is that p
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European Union are analyzed. The stability and duration of the trade measures over time is investigated by the survival …, and the lowest significance of unsuccessful price and unsuccessful quality competition. The duration of relative trade … advantages is longer than the duration for the successful trade competition categories. Our results confirm that the relative …
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support go to persons at the bottom of income ladder, although those in deep poverty are benefiting less. The income … the income distribution resulting in a higher poverty rate, and that redistributing these benefits in favour of the … members of the original bottom or the two bottom deciles would ameliorate their income position and reduce the rate of poverty …
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support go to persons at the bottom of income ladder, although those in deep poverty are benefiting less. The income … the income distribution resulting in a higher poverty rate, and that redistributing these benefits in favour of the … members of the original bottom or the two bottom deciles would ameliorate their income position and reduce the rate of poverty …
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The study overviews the main mechanisms of public employment. It aims to understand the factors that influence what types and volume of resources settlements receive in order to increase their local employment opportunities. In order to do that we reviewed the database for the years 2011-2014...
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This paper examines characteristics for participation in active labor market policies assisting the unemployed in turning into entrepreneurs- among those who were registered unemployed for at least one day during 2014-15 in Hungary. Data shows that it is rather the disadvantaged unemployed who...
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Measuring non-cognitive skills in evaluations of education policy interventions is an increasingly important task. At the same time, choosing the adequate measures is difficult. Contrary to cognitive development, there is a shortage of reliable and valid measures of personality and behavioral...
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The National Educational Integration Network (OOIH) launched a program in 2003 that focused on the integrated education of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for the educational disadvantages of children from poor...
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This paper aims at estimating the effect of the kindergarten allowance program (a conditional cash transfer program organized by the government) introduced in Hungary in January 2009. We use institutional kindergarten data and municipality-level demographic data spanning ten years (2001 through...
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