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High school types, academic performance and early labour market outcomes

Cappellari, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Occupational sorting of school graduates : the role of economic preferences

Fouarge, Didier; Kriechel, Ben; Dohmen, Thomas - 2014

We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the …

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Do study abroad programs enhance the employability of graduates?

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2013

conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the … have on the employment prospects of graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. …

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The scarring effect of graduate underemployment : evidence from the UK

Dickson, Matt; Donnelly, Michael; Kameshwara, Kalyan Kumar - 2024

,000 graduates from undergraduate degrees in the UK in 2013. Labour market outcomes at six-months and 42-months post-graduation are …, with arguments from both equity and efficiency for policies to help graduates to attain graduate level jobs. …

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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian national graduates survey

Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017

immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 …

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Disruptive peers and academic performance : short- and long-term outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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The costs of early school leaving in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...

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School tracking and development of cognitive skills

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009

The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...

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Parental background, primary to secondary school transitions, and wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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