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Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...
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Auch wenn in den vergangenen Jahren die Anzahl der Studierenden im ersten Semester immer mehr angestiegen ist, bleiben sozioökonomische Unterschiede ein Thema beim Übergang in die Hochschule: Studienberechtigte, deren Eltern kein Studium abgeschlossen haben, beginnen seltener ein Studium als...
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In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to...
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innovation, investment, and jobs, can support the positive transformation of European society, even against a backdrop of …
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I use administrative and survey data from Chile and a structural model to evaluate teacher policies in a market-based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on the self-selection of individuals into teaching and...
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This paper examines New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). SYEP provides jobs to youth ages 14–24, and due to high demand for summer jobs, allocates slots through a random lottery system. We match student-level data from the SYEP program with educational records from the NYC...
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Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...
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Bezahlte Nachhilfe ist inzwischen für viele Kinder und Jugendliche ein wichtiges zusätzliches Lernangebot. In der Sekundarstufe I nutzten im Jahr 2013 insgesamt 18 Prozent aller Schülerinnen und Schüler bezahlte Nachhilfeangebote, in der Grundschule waren es sechs Prozent. Im Zeitraum von...
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Nach wie vor entscheidet sich die Mehrheit der BachelorabsolventInnen für ein Masterstudium, auch wenn die Anteile zurückgehen. Wenig ist jedoch darüber bekannt, was diese Entscheidung beeinflusst und inwiefern dabei Informationen über zusätzliche Erträge eines Masterstudiums und dessen...
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