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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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Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and … thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during … that economic shocks induce a rather small, pro-cyclical immediate response in the apprenticeship market. However, within a …
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preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes …
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. In particular, more effort should be devoted to (i) understanding what new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs … will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes; (iii) reforming labor market institutions to …, with initiatives to re-align demand and supply of skills, labor market reforms, redesigned social safety nets, measures to …
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new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes … the adoption of skills-augmenting technologies. Private sector companies should strengthen training programs … supply of skills, labor market reforms, redesigned social safety nets, measures to promote digital innovation and facilitate …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and … public and private funding. Participation in adult training is low too and, as elsewhere, seems to be concentrated among …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328914
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700689