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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271751
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822567
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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903210
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Increased compulsory school leaving age affects secondary school track choice and increases dropout rates in vocational training schools
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna - 2018
vocational training schools. At the same time, those choosing vocational training schools are more likely to drop out under the … vocational training schools due to supply constraints, and a shift in student composition to include more students from lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958584
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Are 12 years of schooling sufficient for preparation for tertiary education? : evidence from the reform of secondary school duration in Germany ; conference paper
Meyer, Tobias; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014 - This version: February 28, 2014
An important education reform in Germany reduced the duration of university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years, but left the curriculum unchanged. In the state of Saxony-Anhalt the reform was completed in 2007 with a double cohort of graduates, providing a natural experiment. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481255
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298791
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600953
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828231
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Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany
Tamm, Marcus - 2007
The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in life. School track choice heavily influences choices and opportunities later in life. It has often been observed that secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261055
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Cross-national surveys of learning achievement : how robust are the findings?
Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; … - 2005
International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003011506