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Ready for School? Effects on School Starters of Establishing School Psychology Offices in Norway
Flatø, Martin; Bratsberg, Bernt; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2023
We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290262
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Improving educational pathways to social mobility : evidence from Norway's "Reform 94"
Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack - 2019
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102874
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Ready for school? : effects on school starters of establishing school psychology offices in Norway
Flatø, Martin; Bratsberg, Bernt; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2023
We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250369
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Ready for School? Effects on School Starters of Establishing School Psychology Offices in Norway
Flatø, Martin; Bratsberg, Bernt; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2023
We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing’ to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358324
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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When are recruited competences supportive of innovation? Inter-industry differences in the importance of similarity and diversity
Herstad, Sverre J.; Sandven, Tore - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015
Building on recent evolutionary thinking, this paper links the present innovation performance of Norwegian firms to … system is not. This underscores the dependence of industrial innovation on specialized competences and work practices that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171361
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Innovation and corporate employment growth revisited
Herstad, Sverre J.; Sandven, Tore - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015
Using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data linked to public employment registers covering the years 2004 … - 2010, this paper investigates the relationship between employment growth prior to the event of innovation, innovation … process innovations, and reveal interdependencies between multi-faceted organizational capabilities, innovation output and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164352
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Single mothers and their children : evaluating a work-encouraging welfare reform
Løken, Katrine V.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Reiso, … - 2016
Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the effect on school grades at completion of junior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540027
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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014
We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404597