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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 …

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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

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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...

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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 …

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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...

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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012

This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use exogenous variation from a mandatory reform of compulsory schooling in West Germany to deal with the endogeneity of schooling. In contrast to studies for other developed...

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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?

Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016

In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...

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