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Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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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Young and innocent international evidence on age effects within grades on school victimization in elementary school

Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the...

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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea Maria - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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