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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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The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations : The 'Masterchef Effect'
Pietro, Giorgio Di - 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 … an increase of one percentage point in the audience of MasterChef is associated with an increase in the proportion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996538
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Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility
Büchel, Felix; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 micro-level restrictions (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822117
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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate
Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822291
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The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822622
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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614941
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Higher Education in India - The Need for Change
Agarwal, Pawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Higher education in India suffers from several systemic deficiencies. As a result, it continues to provide graduates that are unemployable despite emerging shortages of skilled manpower in an increasing number of sectors. The standards of academic research are low and declining. Some of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365261
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How effective are Los Angeles elementary teachers and schools?
Buddin, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study uses value-added methods to examine the effectiveness of Los Angeles elementary teachers and schools. The results show that teacher effectiveness varies substantially across the school district. Most of the variance in teacher effectiveness is within schools and not across schools....
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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