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Educational Effects of Alternative Secondary School Tracking Regimes in Germany
Weber, Andrea M. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2006
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a … demonstrates that the proportion of pupils reaching the highest level of secondary education is relatively small for those who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005606957
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The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland
Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Porta, … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2010
restructuring of the education system that expanded general schooling to test the hypothesis that delayed vocational streaming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515838
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Improving Education Achievement and Attainment in Luxembourg
Carey, David; Ernst, Ekkehard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing … reforms that are underway or planned to improve achievement of immigrant students. Another feature of Luxembourg.s education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046051
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Educational Effects of Alternative Secondary School Tracking Regimes in Germany
Weber, Andrea - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … a German state: The traditional regime of streaming pupils after fourth grade of elementary school is compared to a … demonstrates that the proportion of pupils reaching the highest level of secondary education is relatively small for those who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464722
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822742
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2006
We estimate the effect of age of schoo entry on educational outcomes using two different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464695
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464627
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Einkommensentwicklung im Freistaat Sachsen
Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang; Ragnitz, Joachim - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Die Studie stellt die Bruttolohn- und Tariflohnentwicklung von Arbeitnehmern in der Privatwirtschaft und Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst seit der Wiedervereinigung gegenüber. Dabei werden auch Sonderleistungen (wie Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeld, Überstundenzuschläge usw.), flexible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399674
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Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401713
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On the Determinants and Implications of School Choice: Semi-Structural Stimulations for Chile
Gallego, Francisco A.; Hernando, Andres E. - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2008)
voucher schools). We also (i) analyze the effects on socioeconomic segregation of students and (ii) study the potential … which they live). Interestingly, policies that restrict the use of top ups to the voucher do not seem to reduce segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021338