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Wahrscheinlichkeit gibt, das Abitur oder einen höheren Bildungsabschluss zu erlangen. Auch lässt sich statistisch kein konsistenter Einfl …
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Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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When credit application experiences are examined, minority-owned small firms are not the discouraged borrowers that … statistical analysis reveals that persistence is necessary but insufficient for minority firms to be successful credit applicants …. At the same time, minority-owned firms overall were more likely than white-owned firms to make repeated attempts to …
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is ample research on the reasons why students drop out from STEM education, but evidence on STEM professionals' career … turnover and the relationships of such career patterns with work diversity characteristics in terms of sex and ethnic minority … in ethnic minority status, across career patterns. Further, professionals who change from STEM occupations to non …
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In 2011, the most severe drought in Texas history caused $7.62 billion in losses in the agricultural sector alone. This … paper analyzes ripple effects of the 2011 drought in Texas agriculture on the entire state economy retrospectively in an … to the results, the 2011 drought caused economic losses of $16.9 billion in the entire Texas economy and increased the …
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We use data from the Spanish sample of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to analyze the effect of the LOGSE (Spanish acronym for General Law of the Education System) reform passed in 1990 on numeracy and literacy proficiency of the adult population. The LOGSE...
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We estimate the effect of the 1999 education reform in Poland on employment and earnings. The 1999 education reform in Poland replaced the previous 8 years of general and 3/4/5 years of tracked secondary education with 9 years of general and 3/3/4 years of tracked upper-secondary education. The...
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