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This paper investigates the impact of perceived job autonomy on job satisfaction. We use the fifth sweep of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988-2000), which contains personally reported job satisfaction data for a sample of individuals eight years after the end of compulsory...
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The Government and its agencies have seriously overestimated the impact of the specialist schools programme on educational attainment. The substantially higher exam scores achieved on average by schools with specialist status are due primarily to sample selection bias and not to any benefits...
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We evaluate the effectiveness of a resource-based policy on im- proving school quality measured in terms of pupils' test scores. Using several data sets, we present a set of empirical tests to control for pupil's prior attainment, policy-off policy-on, duration of the funding and subjects of...
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This paper investigates the extent to which exam performance at the end of compulsory education has been affected by three major education reforms: the introduction of a quasimarket following the Education Reform Act (1988); the specialist schools initiative introduced in 1994; and the Excellence in...
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This paper investigates differences between Britain's ethnic groups in their educational attainment at age 16 and their subsequent destinations from school. We use pooled cross-sectional data for the period 1992-98, derived from the Youth Cohort Study, the School Performance Tables and the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine and clarify the relationships between perceived value, satisfaction, and behavioral intention in a small festival setting and applying a structural equation model (SEM). Design/methodology/approach – This paper utilizes survey research and is...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a multi‐dimensional, holistic model that: avoids the variable interdependency found in earlier tools; and integrates multiple factors that characterize menu item costs more accurately by considering more than gross profit....
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