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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2003

strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …

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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

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The long-run effects of teacher strikes : evidence from Argentina

Jaume, David; Willén, Alexander - 2017

This is the first paper to estimate the effect of teacher strikes on student long-run educational attainment and labor market outcomes. We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across provinces in Argentina in a difference-in-difference framework to...

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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments

Hampf, Franziska - 2020

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?

Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra Marie; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013

This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...

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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts

Tyler, John H. - 2002

This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...

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Educación y mercado laboral: Revisión de la literatura y algunos hechos para la Argentina

Paz, Jorge A. - 2005

This work studies the relationship between education and labor market performance, first by making a review of the … literature on the subject, and then by examining certain stylized facts. For the empirical evaluation, education is analysed …. Therefore, education is here discussed as an input, and labor market results, as an output. …

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Computing Careers and Irish Higher Education : A Labour Market Anomaly

Stephens, Simon; O'Donnell, David; McCusker, Paul - 2007

in the Irish Higher Education (HE) sector. Extant computing courses change, or new courses are introduced, in attempts to …

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Labor Market Pooling and Human Capital Investment Decisions

Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2009

Labor market pooling is considered one of the advantages of agglomerations. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and firms. Firms produce with different technologies requiring diverse skills....

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Quality Education, Social Cohesion and Active Labour Market Policies : A Comparative Analysis of Two European Island States

Camilleri, Mark Anthony; Camilleri, Adriana Caterina - 2022

Societies benefit from the delivery of inclusive education, lifelong learning and from active labour market policies … findings suggest that both countries need to attract more students to vocational and higher education in order to improve their … employment, education or training. In conclusion, this contribution implies that the pursuit of continuous improvements in …

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