Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,259
Cover Image
Optimal Use of Labour Market Policies
Wunsch, Conny - 2007
Labour market policies for the unemployed combine passive income support with active measures that aim at improving jobseekers' employment prospects. This paper extends the theoretical framework developed by Pavoni and Violante (2005a) for the optimal choice between different active and passive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729721
Cover Image
Education, reputation or network? : evidence from Italy on migrant workers employability
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009
The strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or signals to modify employers' beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic networks deeply-rooted in the hosting country;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810982
Cover Image
Education, Reputation or Network? Evidence from Italy on Migrant Workers Employability
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009
The strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or signals to modify employers’ beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic networks deeply-rooted in the hosting country;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205744
Cover Image
Some Remarks on the Effectiveness of Primary Education Interventions
Silva, Olmo - 2009
In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can effectively improve the quality of primary schooling, as measured by pupil test-based achievements. Particular attention is devoted to the experience of England, a country which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331424
Cover Image
Rise to the challenge or not give a damn : differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests
Attali, Yigal; Neeman, Zvika; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE …. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306326
Cover Image
Human capital and education policy : evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600116
Cover Image
Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147855
Cover Image
Grades and Rank : Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance
Jalava, Nina - 2014
How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test … non-financial incentives play an important role in motivating highly skilled students to exert more effort. We find … reward. The motivational strengths of the non- financial incentives differ across the test score distribution, across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047861
Cover Image
Grades and Rank : Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance
Jalava, Nina - 2014
How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test … non-financial incentives play an important role in motivating highly skilled students to exert more effort. We find … reward. The motivational strengths of the non-financial incentives differ across the test score distribution, across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061998
Cover Image
Intended and unintended effects of student performance measurement reform in China
Song, Yang - In: China economic review : an international journal 50 (2018), pp. 133-152
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008209