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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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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 vocational education perform slightly better than academic education in …
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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 vocational education perform slightly better than academic education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863178
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
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attainment and earnings by arguing that the signalling role of formal education – captured by attainment – matters more than …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
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We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on the grade and the test – with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We...
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