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education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human … targeted not only more at education but also more equal access to education …
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While the share of non-native students in a class is supposed to have a non positive effect on school achievement … students, can push them to be proficient in the instructional language, can reduce the scope of ethnic identification with all … difficult. I exploit the within school cohort variation in ethnic diversity of a rich data-set about primary education in the …
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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … effects are heterogeneous, both in the type of immigrant classmates, and in the type of native students that are affected …' performance. This negative impact is stronger among natives with low parental education. We also report a negative effect of the …
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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positive effects dominate across worker types defined by age or education. Negative effects dominate within age groups and … among low-education types. Policy simulations show that these estimated effects make the distribution of where women work an …
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Estimates on the effect of job contact method -- i.e., informal versus formal search -- on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting help from informal connections and obtaining high-paying jobs, while others finding a negative...
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I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction effects of guilt change due to peer effects. Guilt aversion predicts the occurrence of peer effects caused by changes in guilt sensitivity and belief. I found supporting evidence of...
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intended to improve the adaptation of freshman college students and the access to higher education, suggesting that students …First year students at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, one of the leading Chilean universities, are … that being assigned as a freshman to a group with more or less students from a same school, or from a given socioeconomic …
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Using microdata on a sample of about 350 workers, employed at an Italian public institute, we explain individual absence rates both considering variables that may be related to health conditions and to variables that may suggest shirking behaviour. Among these variables we especially focus our...
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