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| Titre : | Labour economics, vol. 47. EALE conference issue 2016 - August 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/08/2017 |
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Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value added approach, we find that students at upper-secondary voucher schools on average score 0.06 standard deviations lower on exte[...]
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Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almo[...]
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This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence, exploiting a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment to identify causal effects: between 200[...]
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This paper presents a review of mostly experimental evidence demonstrating the potential usefulness of simplifying the college admission and enrollment process. Seemingly small differences in the process of students transitioning to college ofte[...]
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This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days an[...]
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This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, it applies the approach used in the anal[...]
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Women are typically less likely to hold management positions than men. Despite the converging roles of men and women in several labour market outcomes, the gender management gap is persistent. In this paper, we analyse the impact of children on [...]
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This study analyzes whether providing information about a newly introduced training voucher that reduces individual training costs by half has the potential to increase employees’ training participation. More than one year after the introduction[...]
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This study examined the effects of minimum wages on formal and informal firm-provided training and worker-initiated training in Japan. Economic theory predicts that a minimum wage increase will adversely affect firm-provided training, and while [...]
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This study analyzes the short-term effects of the minimum wage introduction on firm-provided apprenticeship training in the main construction sector in Germany. While the minimum wage was binding for regular blue-collar workers, apprentices were[...]
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This paper analyzes the impact of participation in job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the e[...]
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This study uses longitudinal administrative data from the Netherlands to explore the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives. We focus on workers with partial Disability Insurance (DI) benefits that have substantial residual w[...]
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