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Chapter 7. The Economics of Tracking in Education

Betts, Julian R. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 341-381). 2011

Tracking refers to the practice of dividing students by ability or achievement. Students may be tracked within schools … emphases, as has been practiced commonly in Europe. Proponents of tracking argue that tracking can increase the efficiency of … aggravating inequality. Evaluating effects of tracking on average student achievement and the distribution of achievement is …

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Life-cycle educational choices : evidence for two German cohorts

Biewen, Martin; Tapalaga, Madalina - 2016

We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and …

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Susceptibility to default training options across the population

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2015

This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...

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Skill Premia and Intergenerational Skill Transmission : The French Case

Ben-Halima, Bassem; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - 2013

In the case of France, we analyse the changes (i) in the skill premium linked to each level of education and (ii) in the impact of parents’ skill and income upon the educational attainment of their children. To this end, we build a theoretical model which is subsequently estimated. Our...

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Boosting productivity in Russia : skills, education and innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2015

The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...

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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...

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Task allocation and innovation : revisiting the role of vocational education and training in manufacturing firms

Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg - 2025

This paper examines the role of vocational education and training (VET) in innovation by comparing the VET workforce's participation in innovation with that of university graduates, such as scientists and engineers. Using individual-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we distinguish...

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The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Berger, Eva M. - 2020

Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation abilities. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals'...

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Qualification Offer in EGOV Competencies in PALOP-TL

Silva, João Marco - 2019

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have been successfully used in order to promote and pursue the goals of UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Meeting these goals, however, require significant efforts on public policy development, adequate planning and implementation, as...

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Nudging Academics to Didactic Training

Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin - 2016

In a field experiment at a German university we tried to nudge academics to participate in didactic training. The treatment group received additional information about the average monetary value of comparable private sector training courses outside of the university's in-house didactic training...

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