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Gender in intergenerational educational persistence across time and place
Schneebaum, Alyssa; Rumplmaier, Bernhard; Altzinger, … - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 42 (2015) 2, pp. 413-445
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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021
argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in …
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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature....
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Public school efficiency using data envelopment analysis : an empirical application for Brazil
Raposo, Isabel Pessoa de Arruda; Menezes, Tatiane; … - 2011
This paper studies the educational efficiency as determined only by the variables directly controlled by the school …
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Distance deterrence effect and intergenerational similarity in the field-of-study choices of Finnish university students
Suhonen, Tuomo - 2012
Numerous studies have found that school proximity and parents' educational background affect individuals' educational … Finnish university students who graduated from high school between 1991 and 1996. The study's emphasis is on analyzing to what … extent the individuals' field of study choices are associated with the location of high school and the resulting shortest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509179
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Labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility : theory and evidence
Hennig, Jan-Luca - 2021
In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility, two of the most important features of advanced labor markets in recent decades. The former relates to the disappearance of middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326554
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Compulsory schooling and geographic distribution on voluntary education
Filiztekin, Alpay; Karahasan, Burhan Can - 2015
Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515610
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The impact of minimum wages on teenagers' educational expectations
Anger, Silke; Heß, Pascal; Kunaschk, Max - 2019
We study the effect of the introduction of the German statutory minimum wage law in 2015 on teenagers' educational expectations. We focus on low-skilled students, the group most likely to be affected by the minimum wage after entering the labor market. Theoretical predictions of the effect of...
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Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Europe : are they on the rise?
Suárez Álvarez, Ana; López, Ana Jesús - In: Inequality, taxation and intergenerational transmission, (pp. 149-196). 2019
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