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A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...
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We study the optimal entry fee in a symmetric private value first-price auction with signaling, in which the participation decisions and the auction outcome are used by an outside observer to infer the bidders' types. We show that this auction has a unique fully separating equilibrium bidding...
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A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097491
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship …. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start … searched for apprenticeship positions unsuccessfully directly leaving school and analyse the effect of the subsidy on the risk …
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We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship …. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start … searched for apprenticeship positions unsuccessfully directly leaving school and analyse the effect of the subsidy on the risk …
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Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...
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The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...
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This paper investigates the short-term costs and benefits of apprenticeship training in Germany. It calls into question … the popular stylised fact that apprenticeship training always leads to net costs during the apprenticeship period. We … manufacturing occupations face net training costs during the apprenticeship period but gain by the long-term employment of its …
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occupations have different apprenticeship durations. This paper proposes to calculate the yearly average on the basis of daily …
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first to analyse these differences. Quality differences of apprenticeship quality between training firms that have been … apprenticeship quality. …
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