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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140024
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Student work, educational achievement, and later employment : a dynamic approach
Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter - 2017
This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes as a chain of discrete choices. To tackle their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758789
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Severity of the issue of excluded young people in Macedonia from education : howe to cope with?
Novkovska, Blagica - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 295-306
goal at European level. Data reported here urge the need for continuous, effective and well targeted support to youth with … strategies for increasing of youth educational skills, competencies and employability. These strategies have to be focused on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781501
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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707588
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Working while Studying : Employment Premium or Penalty for Youth in Benin?
Dedehouanou, Senakpon F. A. - 2019
Most youth in developing countries leave school with only a general academic education level, slowing down their … transition to the labor market. We analyze whether work experience during school can help youth transition more easily to a first …, especially when combined with apprenticeships, but these results were significant only for men and youth who left school with at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891520
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The Causal Effect of Age at Migration on Youth Educational Attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique - 2018
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920107
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Inequality of Education Opportunities for Young Adults in Russia
Karmaeva, Natalia - 2015
This paper addresses the issue of inequality of opportunity in education among young adults in Russia. The Russian household panel data (RLMS) are used. The results are discussed in the context of the current education policy in Russia, such as introduction of the unified state examination at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021638
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Does Early School Entry Prevent Youth Obesity?
Zhang, Ning - 2014
restricted-access National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and first-grade entrance policies, I compare years of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050005
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Education and Occupational Attainment of Australian Youth
Huq, Molla - 2014
examined using Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) 95 cohort data which involved the students who were at year 9 in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140262
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Performance of Young Adults : The Importance of Different Skills
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086043