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The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland
Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip; Smyth, Emer - 2008
This paper looks at the economic returns to different fields of study in Ireland in 2004 and also the value placed on various job-related competencies, accumulated on completion of higher education, in the Irish labour market. In examining these issues the paper seeks to control for potential...
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
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Self-selection, socialization, and risk perception: an empirical study
Weisenfeld, Ursula; Ott, Ingrid - 2009
We analyze students' knowledge and risk perception of four technologies. The aim is to find out whether there is a …, advanced students perceive lower risks than beginners, and students in a technical study area perceive lower risks than … students in a non-technical area. Factor analyses show that common dimensions of risk are the technological areas and not the …
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Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, V. Joseph; Kang, Songman - 2010
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …
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Gekommen, um zu bleiben – Fiskalische Effekte ausländischer Studierender in Deutschland
Gäbler, Stefanie - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 22 (2015) 5, pp. 32-41
Durch die gebührenfreie Hochschulausbildung in Deutschland entstehen der öffentlichen Hand mit jedem Studierenden Ausgaben. In diesem Artikel wird untersucht, wie lange ein ausländischer Absolvent nach Abschluss des Studiums in Deutschland erwerbstätig bleiben müsste, bis die gezahlten...
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Decentralizing university admission: Evidence from a natural experiment
Horstschräer, Julia - 2012
experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on …
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental investigation
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286341
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modi ed version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281521
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Evaluation of a long-term transformational leadership development program
Abrell, Carolin; Rowold, Jens; Weibler, Jürgen; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 3, pp. 205-224
This study represents a multi-method, multi-source, and longitudinal evaluation of a leadership development program in Germany. For the development of transformational leadership, the methods of leadership feedback, training, and coaching were combined into a program. The effects of this program...
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Hinter den Kulissen der Reurbanisierung: Eine vertiefte Analyse der statistischen Daten über Ursachen und Stabilität des Reurbanisierungstrends
Hochstetter, Bernhard - In: Reurbanisierung in baden-württembergischen Stadtregionen, (pp. 50-76). 2015
Analysen der Zu- und Fortzüge nach Wanderungsdistanz und -richtung in Baden-Württemberg zeigen, dass es die Reurbanisierung im Sinne eines Zurück der Suburbanisierer in die Stadt nicht gibt. Sehr wohl aber einen verstärkten Zuzug ganz spezifischer Altersgruppen in die Oberzentren. Es sind...
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