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Educational Outcomes, Gender and Body Weight : Evidence from Italy
Barone, Adriana - 2017
This study examines the relationship between body weight and academic performance, focusing on gender differences and using survey data from students at the University of Salerno in Italy. Our findings indicate a significant negative relationship between body weight and academic performance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963817
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Assimilation and other determinants of school attainment in Germany : do immigrant children perform as well as Germans?
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Büchel, Felix; Wagner, Gert G. - 1996
The German secondary school stream-system has three levels: minimum (Hauptschule), general (Realschule), and university-entry (Gymnasium). Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we examine determinants of school attainment of German and foreign pupils in West Germany 1984-1993 using an...
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The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education : Is There a Trade-Off?
Verhaest, Dieter - 2015
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the start of the career (when opting for a vocational orientation) and a lower risk of bad match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016358
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The costs of early school leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224587
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The costs of early school leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-31
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417202
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Overqualification, job dissatisfaction, and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education
Green, Francis; Zhu, Yu - 2008
to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of Real and Formal overqualification, according … the trend in overqualification types between 1992 and 2006. The distinction between types is relevant because employees in … the Real Overqualification group experience greater, and more sharply rising, pay penalties than those in the Formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290670
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014
persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that … a high socioeconomic status are found to be less likely to be overqualified. The unconditional social overqualification … overqualification gap can be attributed to group differences in observable characteristics. Differences in cognitive skills, study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468427
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The magnitude and predictors of overeducation and overskilling in Latin America : evidence from PIAAC
Castro, Juan Francisco; Ortega, Lorena; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2022
Occupational mismatch, defined as a discrepancy between workers' qualifications or skills and those required by their job, is a highly debated phenomenon in developed countries, but rarely addressed in developing economies from a comparative perspective. This study investigates the magnitudes of...
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 253-268
Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs’ educational requirements and workers’ qualifications implying … status families are found to be less likely to be overqualified. The unconditional social overqualification gap amounts to 7 ….4 percentage points. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions of the overqualification gap show that differences in ability and skills, study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635940
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Education mismatch, human capital and labour status of young people across European Union countries
Pompei, Fabrizio; Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2015
This paper analyses the influence of country-level education mismatch on the individual-level relationship between education and the probability of being unemployed or staying in alternative labour statuses, for young people aged 15-34 in 2006, 2008 and 2010, living in 21 EU countries. We assume...
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