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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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The Visegrad 4 countries are characterized by low female and maternal employment rates compared to other Western and … Nordic countries. Employment rates of mothers with children aged 0-2 years old are especially low, except in Poland. Work …-family balance indicators and gender wage gaps are also unfavorable. The poor labor market situation of mothers in V4 countries has …
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The Visegrad 4 countries are characterized by low female and maternal employment rates compared to other Western and … Nordic countries. Employment rates of mothers with children aged 0-2 years old are especially low, except in Poland. Work …-family balance indicators and gender wage gaps are also unfavorable. The poor labor market situation of mothers in V4 countries has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439774
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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poor students in PAA, a compulsory multiple-choice test required to enroll in university education in Chile. The main …
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main results found in the literature. The wage premium to a year of attained education is smaller than that to required … education. Returns to overeducation are positive but smaller than those to required education. Years of undereducation result in … education, and the estimated coefficients of undereducation are non-significant for many countries. The results also suggest …
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The paper examines the labour-market position of persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary. First, using … simple labour-market indicators and international-comparison data, we find that persons with the higher-education diploma in … Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of both wage premium and unemployment. Second, analysing the occupation/education …
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The paper examines the labour-market position of persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary. First, using … simple labour-market indicators and international-comparison data, we find that persons with the higher-education diploma in … Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of both wage premium and unemployment. Second, analysing the occupation/education …
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main results found in the literature. The wage premium to a year of attained education is smaller than that to required … education. Returns to overeducation are positive but smaller than those to required education. Years of undereducation result in … education, and the estimated coefficients of undereducation are non-significant for many countries. The results also suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719317
contributed to Hungarian growth, while the role of human capital, and employment in particular was only important at the end of …
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