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Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy
Bryson, Alex - 2020
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823327
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Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy
Bryson, Alex; Corsini, Lorenzo; Martelli, Irene - 2020
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288996
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Human Capital Depreciation and Education Level
Weber, Sylvain - 2014
We investigate the link between human capital depreciation and education level through a nonlinear wage equation, using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS) over the period 1998-2008. Instead of using a purely quantitative approach to separate workers by years of education, qualitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709009
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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291393
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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools : evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts
Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018
Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951949
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns to … apprenticeship for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot complete their training in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736655
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. In order to overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741056
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns to … apprenticeship for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot complete their training in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316777
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008778408
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498197