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, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …
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Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of … non-college bound students in Western European dual education systems, there is a lack of evidence from Central Eastern … Hungarian vocational apprenticeship students from the non-college bound vocational training track and from the vocational …
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Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of … non-college bound students in Western European dual education systems, there is a lack of evidence from Central Eastern … Hungarian vocational apprenticeship students from the non-college bound vocational training track and from the vocational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344317
This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … the school starting age imply that those who start school at the age of seven do better on competency tests than those … children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …
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; overeducation ; undereducation ; returns to over- and undereducation ; international comparison …
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, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … the school starting age imply that those who start school at the age of seven do better on competency tests than those … children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
Non-cognitive skills are important predictors of success on the labour market and in many areas of economic and social life. This paper explores the current literature on the economics of non-cognitive skill formation and the most important explanatory factors behind the recent boost of the...
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Institutions of the liberal democracies of the developed Western world are increasingly insufficient to deal with the ever worsening of social problems associated with technological progress, the rapid economic transformation of the economy, the demographic issues and the acceleration of...
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The starting point of this paper is a widely shared fundamental preference according to which Hungary should follow a fast, sustainable development path and catch up with the developed world in the foreseeable future. Questions raised in this paper are related to the instrumental preferences....
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