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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis
Münch, Claudia; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Women's opportunities under different constellations of family policies in western countries: Inequality tradeoffs re-examined
Korpi, Walter; Ferrarini, Tommy; Englund, Stefan - 2010
Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …. According to influential social science writings this view has now to be revised; 'women friendly' policies bringing women into … the workforce are held to create major inequality tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's jobs. Unintendedly …
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Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
Antòn, José-Ignacio; de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz; … - In: Estudios de Economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 53-86
migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling
Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261886
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - 1999
We compare changes in schooling output and in schooling input of six East Asian countries to derive a measure of productivity change. Our results question the impression that all is well with education in East Asia. First, we find that the cognitive achievement of pupils did not change...
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On the Determinants of Scholastic Performance in Five Asian Countries
Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - 2013
scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Thailand). In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507370
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Asian economics 12 (2001) 3, pp. 401-417
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...
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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
Wößmann, Ludger - 2003
and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260554
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...
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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
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