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An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial

Hvidman, Charlotte; Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; … - 2021

We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school, using a stratified cluster randomized trial involving 15,559 pupils in 264 schools in Denmark. Next to training pupils in Danish and...

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Does test-based teacher recruitment work in the developing world? : experimental evidence from Ecuador

Araujo P., Maria Daniela; Heineck, Guido; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2021

Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to pass national skill and content knowledge tests before they are allowed to participate in merit-based selection competitions for tenured positions at public schools in an attempt to raise teacher quality. We evaluate the...

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The non-linearity of the relationship between human capital and exports in Brazil : evidences of regional differences : paper to be presented at the 51st European Congress of the R...

Fraga, Gilberto Joaquim; Bacha, Carlos José Caetano - 2011

schooling) has been one of these determinants and this paper, basing on Dixit and Woodland (1982) model, aims to evaluate the …

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Child education and work : evidence from Mexico's full-time school program

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020 - This version: June 2020

This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in … Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage … being enrolled in school, but affects weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. Moreover, exposure to the program …

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The challenge of SGI provision in rural areas : a paper prepared for the 55th European Congress of Regional Science International, 25-29 August 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal

Rauhut, Daniel; Komornicki, Tomasz - 2015 - Draft 16 July 2015

The access to Services of General Interest (SGI) is a highly relevant factor for territorial cohesion and in creating economic opportunity. Although the topic of SGI was not on the top of the policy agenda during the last decade, it attracts far more interest since the start of the economic...

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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014

A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...

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Can an ageing Scotland afford independence?

Lisenkova, Katerina; Mérette, Marcel - 2013

The aim and scope of this paper is to isolate the effects of population ageing in the context of potential Scottish independence. Fiscal challenges are often quoted as a strong argument against independence. Demographic processes play an important role in determining future economic growth via...

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Potential labour supply in the regions of the Nordic countries : a method to forecast and test regional patterns of potential labour supply

Kangasharju, Aki; Dall Schmidt, Torben; Rauhut, Daniel - 2010

Population changes are decisive for growth performances. This has been shown in a number of country studies, using time series data. The analysis is here extended in two dimensions: 1) the importance of demographics for growth is taking in to account a regional dimension allowing for spatial...

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Determinants of return migration in Spain in its new role as a receiving country

Larramona, Gemma - 2011

Around 5% of the foreign population residing in Spain took the decision to leave this country in 2009. Spain has recently become a receiving country for migrants and the phenomenon of temporary migration is on the rise. The aim of this paper is to provide some insights into the determinants that...

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Are the number of skilled workers running out in Germany? : the (non)consequences of demographic change

Garloff, Alfred; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2013 - This version: 1st February 2013, preliminary

Two stylised facts of the German labour market are that first, the demand for (high-)skilled labour has been growing rapidly for a number of years and second, the country is facing a particularly strong demographic change with the expected size of the population decreasing rapidly and the...

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