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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2003

This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application … strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their … Hungarian secondary school students, three aspects of application decisions are investigated: the number of applications; the …

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A túl- és az alulképzés bérhozama 25 országban

Galasi, Péter (contributor) - 2008

By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719317

Inter-ethnic friendship and hostility between Roma and non-Roma students in Hungary : the role of exposure and academic achievement

Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2017

This study examines friendship and hostility relations between Roma students and the ethnically homogeneous non …-Roma majority in Hungarian schools. Using data on friendship and hostility relations of 15-year-old students from 82 schools the … study focuses on the interaction between exposure to the other ethnic group and academic achievement of Roma students. High …

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Estimating wage equations for Hungarian higher-education graduates

Galasi, Péter - 2003

The paper investigates the wage determination of Hungarian highereducation graduates with using two samples of Hungarian careerbeginners, applying IV techniques and the multiple indicator solution so as to diminish potential estimation biases due to endogeneity of independent variables...

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Earnings expectations and higher education enrolment decisions in Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2001

This paper is based on a survey carried out among Hungarian secondary school students to examine (i) what students know … impact on the probability of applying for higher educational studies. The results show that students on the average, have …

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Economic transformation and the return to human capital : the case of Hungary, 1986-1996

Vincze, Maria; Köllő, János - 1999

Millions of East-Europeans started businesses during the transformational recession but, according to a wide-spread interpretation, many of them did so only temporarily and 'unwillingly' under the threat of unemployment. The paper looks at the relevance of the 'disguised unemployment approach to...

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Decreased tracking, increased earning : evidence from the comprehensive Polish educational reform of 1999

Drucker, Luca Flóra; Horn, Dániel - 2016

The Polish educational reform in 1999 is often considered successful as the results of the Polish students, and … comprehensive education improved the test performance of worse performing students; hence increasing average performance and … at employment and wages as outcomes. Using data from the EU-Statistics on Income and Living conditions, and pooling the …

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Using machine learning to model interaction effects in education : a graphical approach

Schiltz, Fritz; Masci, Chiara; Agasisti, Tommaso; Horn, … - 2017

Educational systems can be characterized by a complex structure: students, classes and teachers, schools and principals …

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The effect of increased general education in vocational schools : evidence from a Hungarian vocational school reform

Ghysels, Joris; Hermann, Zoltán; Rud, Iryna; Somers, … - 2017

improved labour market outcomes of vocational school students. Second, in the vocational school group the reform has increased …

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A képzési terület és a felsőoktatási intézmény hatása a fiatal diplomások munkaerő-piaci sikerességére a 2000-es évek végén

Varga, Júlia - 2010

The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...

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