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Minimum wages and vocational training incentives in Germany
Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2017
We examine the impact of sector-specific minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo vocational training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill...
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Are apprenticeships business cycle proof?
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of youth...
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2021
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive impact on the innovative capacity of training companies, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits establishment data from a...
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Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816646
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The impact of dual apprenticeship : programs on early labour market outcomes : a dynamic approach
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2018
This study examines the impact of enrolling into dual apprenticeship programs in secondary education on six early employment outcomes. Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we estimate . within the same, Belgian secondary education framework – the effects of two distinct...
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What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books
Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023
Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin...
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Theory-based evaluation of the curriculum Lgr 11a
Wahlström, Ninni; Sundberg, Daniel - 2015
This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for … generate new knowledge concerning the influences of international educational reform movements, national curriculum reforms and …, explanatory curriculum theory by relating the societal, the programmatic and the classroom curriculum level, (ii) add a …
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The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland
Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Porta, … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2010
systems, including a declining share of vocational students. Exposing more students to a general curriculum could improve …
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Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
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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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