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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States : The Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants
Picot, Garnett - 2012
This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of immigrants born in Canada and the United States, also known as the second generation. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the second and third-and-higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109708
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The state of the system : a reality check on Canada's schools
Bennett, Paul W. - 2020
A School System under Stress -- Shaping of the System: The Modern Bureaucratic Education Statein Formation, 1920 …-93 -- Testing Time: The Triumph of Testing, Accountability, and Systems,1993-2015 -- Consolidate and Control: School Consolidation …: Soft Skills and Hard Realities -- The Big Disconnect: High School Graduates and the Preparedness Problem -- The School …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293653
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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408867
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591
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Human capital accumulation and endogenous public expenditures
Glomm, Gerhard; Ravikumar, B. - In: The Canadian journal of economics 34 (2001) 3, pp. 807-826
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001612135
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The Completion Behaviour of Registered Apprentices : Who Continues, Who Quits, and Who Completes Programs?
Laporte, Christine; Mueller, Richard E. - 2012
least a high school education prior to beginning an apprenticeship. Males and females have similar completion probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172175
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786216
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School quality and the distribution of male earnings in Canada
Bedard, Kelly - 1999
Using quantile regressions, this paper provides evidence that the relationship between school quality and wages varies … other quantile-education groups. The results presented in this paper also suggest that the optimal school for high school … graduates is likely smaller than for high school drop-outs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569421
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Identifying Alberta's Best Schools
Johnson, David Roland - 2021
performance. The resulting school ratings, by percentile, are useful not only to parents, but to teachers, school board …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213473
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043700