, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement … presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …

, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement … presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …

premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … existing evidence comes from the top of the education and talent distribution. In this study, we use incentivized choices from … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …

Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a … 105 pairs of occupations, and the respondents are not informed about the gender distribution of the two occupations …. Results show that adults are gender-neutral when advising a daughter but have a pronounced preference for male …

progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …

progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track – entering the second year of uppersecondary education – is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …