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Due to a widely spread distrust in the signaling value of school grades, Swiss employers require external, standardized aptitude test results when recruiting new apprentices. However, the predictive quality of such test results has never been thoroughly researched. Therefore, this case study...
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different approach to education. Efficient education is the foundation of modern society and it has the most important role in … preparing students for a very flexible labour market. Education is key for development and progress. The goal of this paper is … that consisted of demographic and economic data and information about previous education. Students' efficacy is measured by …
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Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the majority of students, the CEE score is the single determinant in whether they gain admission into a college and to what college they enter. The purpose of this paper is to determine...
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Enrolment rates to higher education reveal quite large variation over time which cannot be explained by productivity … fluctuations in the demand for education. Agents are heterogeneous in their beliefs about future wage differentials. An … belief. Costly access to information on the returns to education induces agents to use potentially destabilizing backward …
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