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An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners
Figlio, David N. - 2019
In this study, we use microdata from 12 Florida county-level school districts and a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of early grade retention on the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes of English learners. We find that retention in the third-grade substantially improves...
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An extra year to learn English? : early grade retention and the human capital development of English learners
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - In: Journal of public economics 186 (2020), pp. 1-16
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An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners
Figlio, David N. - 2019
In this study, we use microdata from 12 Florida county-level school districts and a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of early grade retention on the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes of English learners. We find that retention in the third-grade substantially improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479428
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Wage growth, human capital and financial investment
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - In: The Manchester School 73 (2005) 6, pp. 686-708
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ICT and the returns to schooling and job-specific experience
Kirby, Simon; Riley, Rebecca R. - In: National Institute economic review 201 (2007), pp. 76-85
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Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession
Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Vignoles, Anna - 2015
This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK's Labour Force Survey (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of official individual level earnings data. This type of administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially...
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How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background
Britton, Jack; Dearden, Lorraine; Shephard, Neil G.; … - 2016
, nominating their subject before they enter higher education (HE). We find subjects like Medicine, Economics, Law, Maths and …
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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training
Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14
This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled … all types of work absence, except for compulsory service for men. Compulsory service has a positive short-term wage effect …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …
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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - Center for Global Development <Washington, DC> - 2019
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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974366