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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342692
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The impact of direct democracy on public education: Evidence for Swiss students in reading, mathematics and natural science
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007
Empirical analyses for the US suggest that stronger people's control over the school budget is deleterious to student performance. Using Swiss data on ninth graders in mathematics, reading and natural science collected jointly with the PISA study 2000, this paper tests this hypothesis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281279
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The impact of direct democracy on public education : evidence for Swiss students in reading, mathematics and natural science
Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor) - 2007
Empirical analyses for the US suggest that stronger people's control over the school budget is deleterious to student performance. Using Swiss data on ninth graders in mathematics, reading and natural science collected jointly with the PISA study 2000, this paper tests this hypothesis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604520
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Improving skills to harness the benefits of a more open economy in Brazil
Grundke, Robert - 2021
As Brazil is significantly less integrated into international trade than other emerging market economies, opening up to … trade has significant potential to create jobs that are more productive and better paid. At the same time, this will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630039
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Human-capital investment and the wage gap
Meckl, Jürgen; Zink, Stefan - 2000
According to empirical studies, the relation between the relative wage of skilled workers and their relative supply is U-shaped. This finding is explained by the effect of technological change on the incentives for humancapital investments made by heterogeneous individuals. -- Wage inequality ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009491076
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Returns to Skills, Incentives to Study and Optimal Educational Standards
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2009
In imperfectly competitive labor markets returns to skills are lower than their productivity and educational standards may play an important role in stimulating students to provide effort. We propose a principal-agent model to analyze the determinants of student effort and the setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211205
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
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Short and long run decompositions of OECD wage in[e]quality changes
Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002
into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and …, when this may not be the case. Incorrect conclusions as to how trade surges and technology contribute to wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292022
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Zukunft der Arbeit und Arbeit der Zukunft in Deutschland
Ochsen, Carsten - 2004
Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass die Arbeitslosenquote Hochqualifizierter in Deutschland in den vergangenen 30 Jahren durchschnittlich 3% betrug, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit Theorien, die die Heterogenität von Arbeit berücksichtigen. Im Ergebnis kann eine Reduktion der Arbeitskosten die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319344
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Trade liberalisation, technical change and skill-specific unemployment
Engelmann, Sabine - 2011
The aim of this paper is to formalise a two-country model of trade liberalisation and technical change with … production we allow for comparative advantages and study the trade and technology effects within and between sectors on wages and … employment of skilled and low-skilled workers. Technical change together with inter-sectoral trade has distributional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286668