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Die soziale Sicherung von (a-)typisch Beschäftigten im europäischen Vergleich

Schulze Buschoff, Karin; Protsch, Paula - 2007

in sechs Ländern dargestellt (Deutschland, das Vereinigte Königreich, die Niederlande, Italien, Dänemark und Polen). Es …

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Neue Selbstständigkeit und wachsender Grenzbereich zwischen selbstständiger und abhängiger Erwerbsarbeit: Europäische Trends vor dem Hintergrund sozialpolitischer und arbeitsrechtlicher Entwicklungen

Schulze Buschoff, Karin - 2004

Erwerbstätigkeit ist historisch gewachsen. In Bezug auf das Arbeitsrecht zeigen sich deutliche Übereinstimmungen in den betrachteten … Ländern Deutschland, Großbritannien, Niederlande, Italien und Schweden: Arbeitsrechtliche Bestimmungen beziehen sich bislang … eher Markt- als soziale Schutzrechte regelt. Während diese grundlegende Übereinstimmung im Arbeitsrecht augenfällig ist …

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School choice and segregation: Evidence from an admission reform

Söderström, Martin; Uusitalo, Roope - 2005

This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school situated closest to where they lived, but from the fall of...

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Effects of decentralization on school resources

Ahlin, Åsa; Mörk, Eva - 2005

Sweden has undertaken major national reforms of its schooling sector which, consequently, has been classified as one of the most decentralized ones in the OECD. This paper investigates the extent to which local tax base, grants, preferences and structural characteristics affected local schooling...

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Resources and student achievement: Evidence from a Swedish policy reform

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn - 2007

This paper utilizes a policy change to estimate the effect of teacher density on student performance. We find that an increase in teacher density has a positive effect on student achievement. The baseline estimate – obtained by using the grade point average as the outcome variable – implies...

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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005

This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...

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Recommendation, class repeating, and children's ability: German school tracking experiences

Ochsen, Carsten - 2008

While the 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study assesses the average ability of German primary school students as being higher than average, the Programme for International Student Assessment studies (2000, 2003, 2006) ranks German secondary school students at a considerably...

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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Wößmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Educational standards in private and public schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2005

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration,...

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