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The effects of vocational education on adult skills, employment and wages: What can we learn from PIAAC?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 4, pp. 315-343

We have shown that vocational education does not perform as well as academic education both in labour market outcomes and in the level of basic skills, including literacy and numeracy. This is especially true for higher education. Only at the upper secondary or post-secondary level does...

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The effects of vocational education on adult skills, employment and wages : what can we learn from PIAAC?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 4, pp. 315-343

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863178

Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa

Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...

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The effect of immigration on the school performance of natives: Cross country evidence using PISA test scores

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 234-246

We use aggregate PISA data for 19 countries over the period 2000–2009 to study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling...

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Regional effects on cooperative innovation activities and the related variety of regional knowledge bases

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2009

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect …The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

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