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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283115
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283839
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: Economics letters 153 (2017), pp. 15-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810521
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Economics of education review 56 (2017), pp. 65-79
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845561
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC ; conference paper
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484467
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235014
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235845
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621692
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629764
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Labor market effects of adult education vouchers : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Messer, Dolores; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2010 - Preliminary version, February 28, 2010
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