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The impact of television programmes on teenage career aspirations : the 'MasterChef effect'
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2016
cooking reality show MasterChef, in which the chef profession is portrayed as exciting and glamorous. Using panel data methods … and controlling for several potential confounding variables, the analysis attempts to separate the effect of MasterChef … that an increase of one percentage point in the audience of MasterChef is associated with an increase in the proportion of …
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Ranking teachers when teacher value-added is heterogeneous across students : preprint
Stacy, Brian - 2014
The typical measure used by researchers and school administrators to evaluate teachers is based on how the students' achievement increases after being exposed to the teacher, or based on the teacher's "value-added''. When teacher value-added is heterogeneous across her students, the typically...
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Higher education in India : the need for change
Agarwal, Pawan - 2006
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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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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : the case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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Overeducation, regional labour markets and spatial flexibility
Büchel, Felix; Ham, Maarten van - 2002
For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labour market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyse how macro-level opportunities (regional labour market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the...
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Successful apprenticeship-to-work transitions : on the long-term change in significance of the German school-leaving certificate
Büchel, Felix - 2002
The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is applied to estimate simultaneously the quality of the school-to-apprenticeship transition and that...
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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Apprenticeship training and the business cycle
Mühlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Wüest, Adrian - 2009
Dual apprenticeship training is a market-driven form of education at the upper secondary level, taking place in firms as well as in vocational schools. So far, little is known about the impact of the business cycle on the number of apprenticeship programs offered by firms. Using panel-data of...
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Do trustees and administrators matter? : diversifying the faculty across gender lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George; Martin, Mirinda L. - 2009
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We...
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