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Tracking refers to the practice of dividing students by ability or achievement. Students may be tracked within schools … emphases, as has been practiced commonly in Europe. Proponents of tracking argue that tracking can increase the efficiency of … aggravating inequality. Evaluating effects of tracking on average student achievement and the distribution of achievement is …
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employ an international differences-in-differences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome … tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …
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employ an international differences-in-differences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome … tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …
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employ an international differences-in-differences approach. We identify tracking effects by comparing differences in outcome … tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …
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Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education...
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We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and …
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This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most important in their (future or past) jobs. Further on in the survey, we randomly select one of the...
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The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law...
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