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This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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This paper examines the job mobility of teachers with different skills using matched employer-employee data from … with better skills are less likely to leave the profession, which suggests that the documented drop in the quality of …
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This research examines whether teacher licensure test scores and other teacher qualifications affect middle school student achievement. The results are based on longitudinal student-level data from Los Angeles. The achievement analysis uses a value-added approach that adjusts for both student...
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This research examines whether teacher licensure test scores and other teacher qualifications affect high school student achievement. The results are based on longitudinal student-level data from Los Angeles. The achievement analysis uses a value-added approach that adjusts for both student and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204382
managers to evaluate which skill signals such as cognitive skills, social skills and maturity are valued by employers when … - cognitive skills, social skills, and maturity - affect the probability of being invited for a job interview. GPAs and social … skills prove relevant for both genders and both groups of labour-market entrants. The relevance of other signals differs in …
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This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073857
quality of the school-to-apprenticeship transition and that of the apprenticeship-to-work transition. This shows that school … lower academic achievers are further penalized for the shortcomings in their general education at the apprenticeship …
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quality of the school-to-apprenticeship transition and that of the apprenticeship-to-work transition. This shows that school … lower academic achievers are further penalized for the shortcomings in their general education at the apprenticeship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405912
This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost classroom instruction on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum....
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