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Remedial education : evidence from a sequence of experiments in Colombia

Álvarez Marinelli, Horacio; Berlinski, Samuel G.; … - 2019

-grade students in Colombia. In a series of randomized experiments, students participated in remedial tutorials conducted during …

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The Quality of Publicly Provided Education in Colombia : Is it a Matter of Incentives?

Stein, Roberto; Nunez, Jairo - 2002

Using matching estimator techniques developed by Heckman, Ichimura, Smith and Todd (1998) and Heckman, Lalonde and Smith (1999), we explore the determinants of achievement rates in standardized tests of Colombian students attending public and private schools. This methodology allows us to...

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Families, Schools, and Primary-School Learning : Evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an International Perspective

Woessmann, Ludger - 2005

primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …, and relatively small in Colombia. A specific Argentine feature is the lack of performance differences between rural and …

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Decisions About Postsecondary Education, Their Returns in Colombia

Ospina, Monica - 2015

This study analyzes the economic returns to schooling decisions made by high school graduates in Colombia. We wanted to … returns for each type of postsecondary degree available in Colombia (technical education, technological education …

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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity : Evidence from Madeira Island

Budria, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after the completion of the training program) depends on...

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Changes in labour market transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession: what role for policy?

Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-18

This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals' transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to unemployment increased. The results indicate that young...

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Informal unemployment and education

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-36

This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational attainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available for low-educated workers. A...

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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people : evidence from PISA and linked administrative data

Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023

This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative data to track the educational and labour market outcomes of young people. Students with lower skills have lower rates of participation in further education. While men with low skills out-earn...

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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...

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The relevance of post-match LTC : why has the Spanish labor market become as volatile as the US one?

Sala, Hector (contributor); Silva, José Ignacio (contributor) - 2005

We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the stylized facts characterizing the US and the Spanish labor markets. Under this benchmark, we find the Post-Match Labor Turnover Costs (PMLTC) to be the centerpiece to explain why the...

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