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The Swiss vocational education and training system: What can Spain learn from Switzerland?

Egg, Maria Esther; Renold, Ursula - 2015

Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland's success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an...

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Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?

Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016

We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...

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Meet the need: The role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market

Bolli, Thomas; Egg, Maria Esther; Rageth, Ladina - 2017

To fight negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world foster vocational education and training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the...

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Modern interregional migration: Evidence from Japan and Poland

Dzienis, Anna Maria - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 55 (2019) 1, pp. 66-80

the level of income inequalities and net migration toward capital regions; and similarly, the relationship between income …

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No Place like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

Winters, John V. - 2022

Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to...

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Improving government quality in the regions of the EU and its system-wide benefits for cohesion policy

Barbero, Javier; Christensen, Martin Aarøe; Conte, Andrea - 2022

in government quality across European Union regions increases the impact of Cohesion investment by up to 7% in the short …

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Villes globales et inégalités: Mondialisation ou financiarisation?

Godechot, Olivier; Woloszko, Nicolas - 2021

Global cities' are urban areas which coordinate a dispersed global economy. As a consequence, they could fuel rising inequality. But do they really contribute to the increase in inequality? And, if so, what are the reasons? Is it because they are major metropolises, political decision-making...

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Regional Patterns of Social Differentiation in Visegrád Countries

Želinský, Tomáš; Fialová, Kamila - In: Czech Sociological Review 55 (2019) 6, pp. 735-789

remained relatively stable over the observed period across the Czech and Slovak regions, but fluctuated in Hungarian regions …, and the initially greater income inequalities in Polish regions have tended to decline over time. The findings suggest … that the least favourable patterns in the development of regional social differentiation are found in the Hungarian regions. …

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The influence of socio-cultural factors on knowledge-based innovation and the digital economy

Vlasov, Maksim; Polbitsyn, Sergey N.; Olumekor, Michael; … - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 8 (2022) 4, pp. 1-13

influence on knowledge-based innovation across all regions and socio-cultural characteristics. Our research provides pioneering …

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...

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