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Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand
Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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Bildungs(miss)erfolge von Jungen und Berufswahlverhalten bei Jungen/männlichen Jugendlichen
Budde, Jürgen - 2008
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Luxembourg : reaping the benefits of a diverse society through better integration of immigrants
Pina, Álvaro Manuel - 2017
Luxembourg’s large foreign-born population is a pillar of the country’s prosperity: they have brought skills and knowledge to many sectors of the economy. They also tend to successfully find jobs, with a higher employment rate than natives. However, not all immigrants have done well. The...
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International mobility of students in Italy and the UK : does it pay off and for whom?
Schnepf, Sylke V.; D'Hombres, Beatrice - 2019
-economic background of the students? Results are compared between Italy and the UK using Italian Institute of National Statistics and UK … undergraduates (UK and Italy) and postgraduates (Italy only). Results confirm that mobility is positively associated with the outcome … to ISM tend to be higher among graduates in Italy. The most sizable effect is found for mobiles' higher propensity to …
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...
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Educational attainment, age and the consequences of job loss : empirical evidence from Germany
Effenberger, Alexandra; Lauber, Verena; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2019
Education is a crucial determinant of labour market success. We investigate whether education is an appropriate means to cushion the negative consequences of job loss and study the role of age as a second major labour market factor. Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years...
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Revue française des affaires sociales : RFAS
1967-: Paris : La documentation française; Paris : Drees - 21.1967-64.2010 ; 2011-
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The effect of COVID-19 confinement policies on community mobility trends in the EU
Lapatinas, Athanasios - Europäische Kommission / Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle - 2020
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Combattre l'isolement social pour plus de cohésion et de fraternité : mandature 2015-2020 - séance du mercredi 28 juin 2017
Serres, Jean-François - Frankreich / Section des Affaires Sociales et de la Santé - 2017
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Measures of interpersonal trust : evidence on their cross-national validity and reliability based on surveys and experimental data
Carlin, Ryan E.; Love, Gregory J.; Smith, Conal - 2017
Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it is necessary to have valid and reliable measures of it....
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