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Does Local School Control Raise StudentOutcomes?: Evidence on the Roles of SchoolAutonomy and Parental Participation

Gunnarsson, Victoria; Orazem, Peter F.; Sánchez, Mario A. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008

School autonomy and parental participation have been frequently proposed as ways of makingschools more productive. Less …-American countries, most ofthe variation in local control over school decisions exists within and not between countries. Thatimplies that … stipulations regarding jurisdiction over school personnel,curriculum and facilities. As a consequence, estimated impacts of local …

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Real Options and Human Capital Investment

Jacobs Bas - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2007

This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influenceinvestment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individualscan affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant toinvest in human...

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Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation inthe UK Graduate Earnings Premium

Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the wholepopulation of 1993 leavers from the ‘old’ universities of the UK toinvestigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Amongother results, we find that there are significant differences in theoccupational earnings...

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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn ,Bart H.H. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationallybecause of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of collegegraduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11European countries and Japan....

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Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? : Evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Blasio, Guido de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education (HE) in increasing the equality of tertiary education opportunities. It examines Italy`s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range of degrees and to open new sites in...

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Employment and Education Policy for YoungPeople in the EU: What Can New Member StatesLearn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launchand re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has takenplace from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long termunemployment to the more...

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Estimating the Need for PhDs in theAcademic Sector via a Survey of Employers

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Kanep, Hanna - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academicsector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities,institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in allcountries around the...

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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration oftheir studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-todegree.This paper investigates individual time-to-degree in a model where studentsdetermine the optimum...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performancein the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-workerpay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire...<br<

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Erwerbstätigkeit von SchülerInnen und Studierenden nimmt zu - Bildung und berufliche Praxis laufen immer häufiger parallel

Voss-Dahm, Dorothea - 2002

Der Anteil von Schülerinnen und Studierenden, die neben dem Besuch einer Bildungsinstitution erwerbstätig sind, steigt kontinuierlich. Als Gruppe auf dem Arbeitsmarkt gewinnen sie zunehmend an Bedeutung. Zwischen 1995 und 1999 wuchs die Zahl der erwerbstätigen Schülerinnen und Studierenden...

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