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Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers

Kupets, Olga - 2015

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic …

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Technical education, non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Brazil

Camargo, Juliana; Lima, Lycia; Riva, Flavio; Souza, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34

effects of the program on school progression, labor market outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Our intention-to-treat estimates … outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Employment rose by 21 percentage points (or approximately 33%) and the gains in earnings are … of more than 50%. Also, women who received the offer scored 0.5σ higher on the synthetic index of non-cognitive skills …

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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus

Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020

abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self …

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A comparison of growth percentile and value-added models of teacher performance

Guarino, Cassandra Marie; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian; … - 2014

School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision between estimators of teacher quality is important. We examine estimates derived from growth percentile...

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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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A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills

Knaus, Michael C. - 2018

-dimensional settings? The results show that improvements in objectively measured cognitive skills require at least medium intensity, while …

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The impacts of shortening secondary school duration : shortening secondary school duration may increase the skilled workface in aging societies

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015

lives to meet the rising costs associated with an aging population and to enable the intergenerational transfer of skills …

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A double machine learning approach to estimate the effects of musical practice on student's skills

Knaus, Michael C. - 2018

-dimensional settings? The results show that improvements in objectively measured cognitive skills require at least medium intensity, while …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867890

Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion

Wedel, Katharina - 2024

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality

Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001

Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...

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