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On the optimal allocation of students when peer effects are at work: tracking vs. mixing
Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 1, pp. 31-52
education policy. I analyze two polar education systems -tracking and mixing- and propose several criteria for their comparison …
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Aspekty efektivnosti při volbě profese a školy: Přizpůsobují se pražské střední školy potřebám podniků?
Benáček, Vladimír - 2010
In this paper we study three crucial questions of economic decision-making: a) How are the people motivated in the choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with the criteria for building the human capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322163
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177769
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Rank effects in education: What do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427619
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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime
Pautrel, Xavier - 2006
that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … ability of the agents to learn is independent to pollution and utility is additively separable. Finally, it establishes that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312553
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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … decomposition methods. Accounting for differences in socioeconomic background, we find that migrant pupils are just as likely to …
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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace
Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001
worker?workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers? education. Our results, using the 1998 UK …, significantly positive effect from average workplace education. We also test for interactions between own and co-worker education … levels. However, these interactions appear negative: education is valued less highly at workplaces where education levels are …
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268355
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The adoption of ICT: Firm-level evidence from Irish manufacturing industries
Haller, Stefanie; Traistaru-Siedschlag, Iulia - 2007
This paper examines factors driving ICT adoption at firm level. We use a novel data set including information on ICT and e-commerce in Irish manufacturing firms over the period 2001-2004 and estimate a model derived from the new technology adoption literature that relates ICT adoption indicators...
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