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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … importance of relative education as an explanatory variable in a Mincerian- style wage equation. I find the conclusions of this … method to be dependent on the reference group used in defining relative education. Consequently also the second method yields …
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is measured in three ways: first, the time it takes to complete civil education and the level of education acquired … further find that longer military service does not prolong the attainment of civil education and does not cause a reduction in …
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-owned firms have a longer and higher education than the personnel of domestic non-multinational firms. Foreign-owned firms pay …
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as well as international literature. A distinction is thereby made between the role and impact of the education system … that early-year education and ALMP measures are typically targeted at differently aged young people. Apart from young …
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to the year 2009. The analysis focuses on their participation in various modes of adult education and their long …-term labour market outcomes. Employees in declining occupations are found to have participated only moderately in adult education …. The result is the same also when adult education is split into four main modes, and into shorter and longer time horizons …
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education and higher income. At the same time, we do not find a significant correlation between locus of control and labor …
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Educational accountability is a timely topic in Hungary, because the law of LXXI/2006 has practically introduced educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or 10th grade. These report cards publicize information...
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This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By … money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal terms. In order to be successful, investments should take place in … investing into somebody's education will lead to benefits not only to the person in question but also to the whole society. We …
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
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There is a lack of comprehensive information on the quality of management in Finland as compared to other countries …. Funded by the Strategic Research Council, the Skills, Education and the Future of Work research project has started filling … this gap. As part of the project, an extensive survey concerning management practices has been implemented for Finnish …
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