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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational …

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Sibling Rivalry: A Look at Switzerland with PISA Data

Wolter, Stefan C.; Coradi Vellacott, Maja - 2002

In this paper we analyse the sibling size and birth-order effect on educational achievement in Switzerland on the basis of PISA data. We find an overall modest size and birth-order effect. The sibling size effect, however, is a product of a substantial and significant negative size effect for...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002

Using data for the 1990?s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...

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The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents to the survey. Based on our quantile regressions, we interpret …

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The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ?Guest Worker? Immigrants

Jakobsen, Vibeke; Smith, Nina - 2003

This paper analyses the educational attainment of young first generation immigrants in Denmark who are children of the ?guest workers? who immigrated from Turkey, Pakistan and Ex-Yugoslavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Beside the traditional intergenerational transmission mechanism, we...

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Employer Learning and Schooling-Related Statistical Discrimination in Britain

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2003

This paper develops and tests a new model of asymmetric information in the labour market involving employer learning. In the model, I provide theoretical conditions for the identification – based on the experience and tenure profiles of estimated returns to ability and education – of...

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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002

We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and …

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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific?...

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The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is typically difficult. This paper uses a structural model to explain the answers on a set of questions...

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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

quality of the school-toapprenticeship transition and that of the apprenticeship-to-work transition. This shows that school …

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