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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994606
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Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes
Brunello, Giorgio; Crocè, Clementina; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2024
We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically significant gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' high school prospects with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096933
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The Pecuniary Costs of Early School Leaving and Poor Basic Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2024
We produce estimates of the pecuniary costs of inadequate investment in human capital for countries, macro regions and the world at large. These costs are borne by individuals (private costs), the government (fiscal costs), and society, which includes both individuals and the government (social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096949
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688175
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863178
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322734
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Teacher personality and the perceived socioeconomic gap in student outcomes
Brunello, Giorgio; Crocè, Clementina; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2024
We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically significant gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' high school prospects with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074593
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The pecuniary costs of early school leaving and poor basic cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2024
We produce estimates of the pecuniary costs of inadequate investment in human capital for countries, macro regions and the world at large. These costs are borne by individuals (private costs), the government (fiscal costs), and society, which includes both individuals and the government (social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063460
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267085
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Modes of knowledge accumulation, entry regimes and patterns of industrial evolution
Bottazzi, Giulio; Dosi, Giovanni; Rocchetti, Gaia - In: Industrial and corporate change 10 (2001) 3, pp. 609-638
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001610387