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Training and hiring strategies to improve firm performance

Maliranta, Mika (contributor); Asplund, Rita (contributor) - 2007

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Rather First in a Village or Second in Rome? The Effect of Students' Class Rank in Primary School on Subsequent Academic Achievements

Ladant, François-Xavier; Bargagli Stoffi, Falco; … - 2023

Using panel data on Italian students from 2013 to 2019, we compare the effect of a student’s class rank to the effect of class quality in primary school on subsequent academic outcomes. We propose a new strategy to identify the impact of rank while controlling for peer effects, by leveraging...

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Student performance may not improve when universities are choosier

Aina, Carmen; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Francesconi, Marco - 2010

We use unique administrative data from a leading Italian University to estimate whether the use of admission tests and conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on the effect of selectivity policies on widening...

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Employer attitudes and the hiring of immigrants and international students : evidence from a survey of employers in Canada

Fang, Tony; Xiao, Na; Zhu, Jane; Hartley, John - 2022

What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are they related to hiring outcomes? Our analysis based on a 2019 random, representative survey of 801 employers finds that those employers who report beliefs that multiculturalism...

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Selecting or rewarding teachers? : international evidence from primary schools

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Scervini, Francesco; … - In: Economics of education review 76 (2020), pp. 1-13

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Measuring the effect of competitive teacher recruitment on student achievement : evidence from Ecuador

Araujo P., Maria Daniela - 2019

In the last decade, several Latin American governments have implemented new teacher recruitment policies based on …-based selection competitions for tenure at public schools. Has this new recruitment system served as an effective screening device … hierarchical linear regressions to evaluate the effect of Ecuador's new competitive recruitment policy. I then use propensity score …

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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019

This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education...

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Does autonomy over teacher hiring affect student math and science achievement?

Kim, Youngran - In: Education economics 25 (2017) 6, pp. 562-574

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Wages, teacher recruitment, and student achievement

Gjefsen, Hege Marie - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 65 (2020)

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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh

Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018

This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...

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