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Migration and jobs : issues for the 21st century
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Robalino … - 2019
of particular attention in design, implementation, and evaluation; namely, (1) active labor market programs that serve … local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor … productivity growth; (3) social insurance programs that cover all jobs and facilitate labor mobility; (4) labor taxes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051822
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How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women?
Palacios-Lopez, Amparo; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kilic, Talip - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290785
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Are you being asked? : impacts of respondent selection on measuring employment
Kilic, Talip; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Koolwal, Gayatri; … - 2020
economic growth and designing well-targeted, gender-sensitive labor policies. How respondent selection in household and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229123
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Review of Final Draft Core Standards
Milgram, R. James - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 3, pp. 1-13
What follows are my comments on the nal draft of the CCSSI Core Mathematics Standards. There are a number of standards including, but not limited to 1-OA(6), 2- OA(2), 2-NBT(5), 3-OA(7), 3-NBT(2), 4-OA(4), 4-OA(6), 4-NF(1), 4-NF(2), 5-OA(3), 8-G(2), 8-G(4), F-LQE(5), G-SRT(4) that are completely...
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The effect of testing on student achievement: 1910-2010
Phelps, Richard P - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 8 (2012) 4, pp. 1-34
This presentation summarizes research on the effect of testing on student achievement as found in English-language sources, comprising several hundred studies conducted between 1910 and 2010. Among quantitative studies, mean effect sizes range from a moderate d ˜ 0.55 to a fairly large d ˜...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678214
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The Source of Lake Wobegon [slide show]
Phelps, Richard P. - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 3 (2007) 3, pp. 1-26
referenced in education research since, but as evidence that high stakes (and not cheating or lax security) cause test score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868034
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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education [book review]
Beals, Katharine - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 1, pp. 1-5
no abstract
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Does Retirement Affect Cognitive Functioning?
Eric, Bonsang; Stéphane, Adam; Sergio, Perelman - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
suggest that promoting labor force participation of older workers is not only desirable to insure the viability of retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615117
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Job Mobility and hours of work: the effect of Dutch legislation
Didier, Fouarge; Christine, Baaijens - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2009
Previous research has pointed to the existence of hours constraints on the labour market: not all employees’ preferences with respect to the length of the working week seem to be fulfilled, and changes in the number of working hours often coincide with job mobility. In this paper, we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008629927
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Using Student Tests to Evaluate Teachers - A Very Bad Idea
Haladyna, Tom - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 2, pp. 1-3
no abstract
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925700