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demnach weiterhin eine zentrale Herausforderung für die Schulpolitik. Für den oftmals unterstellten Einfluss der hohen … Förderschülerzahlen in Ostdeutschland bestätigen die Ergebnisse, dass hierdurch rd. 10 % des durchschnittlichen Unterschiedes erklärt …
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Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Warschau, untersucht, wie die Unternehmen in Polen und in Ostdeutschland die … zufriedenstellend bewertet. Dabei stufen die Unternehmen in Polen Angebote zur Qualifizierung der Arbeitskräfte öfter als die in … Ostdeutschland als besonders wichtig ein, die Angebote werden in beiden Regionen überwiegend als positiv eingeschätzt. Nicht ganz so …
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This paper analyses the impact of agglomeration effects, labour market conditions and other determinants on the location choice of MNEs in transition economies. We compare data from 33 regions in East Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland using a conditional logit model on a sample of 4,343...
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The educational voucher system builds on the pillars of informed choice and competition to improve the quality of the education provided. This document summarizes some of the results of recent literature on the subject, and discusses their public policy implications.
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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261886
School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher...
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