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Wage gaps between native and migrant graduates of higher education institutions in the Netherlands
Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2015
In the Netherlands the share of immigrants in the total population has steadily increased in recent decades. The present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are equally educated. This reduces potential skills biases in our analysis. We apply a Mincer equation...
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"A" is the aim?
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016
professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of administrative data on more than 2, 900 students from the university of …
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Why do institutions of higher education reward research while selling education?
Remler, Dahlia K.; Pema, Elda - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844245
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Rigid low college premiums and the expansion of higher education in Taiwan
Huang, Li-Hsuan; Huang, Hsin-Yi - In: The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic … 60 (2015) 4, pp. 1-25
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From academic achievment to service tasks: an attempt at finding a reliable tool for evaluating the quality of education at Polish universities
Stocki, Ryszard - In: Journal for mental changes : perspectives of economic, … 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 43-73
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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Why Do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia - 2009
Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159527
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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil
Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021
university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
Remler, Dahlia K. - 2009
Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463675
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Honest grading, grade inflation, and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 3, pp. 506-521
When students receive better grades without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable since it is essentially costless to award good grades. In this article, we point out an effect driving into the...
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