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This paper addresses the issue of school students' part-time employment in the last year of compulsory education, and …
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Higher education is not just a signal of innate ability. At least a certain level of educational achievement (degree level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both...
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Income contingent loans are an increasingly popular tool for funding higher education. These loans have desirable features, but also potentially high overall government write-offs in the long run. This latter fact has been well documented, but little is known about how those write-offs vary by...
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and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the …
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Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …
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-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy …
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We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804277