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Diese Untersuchung prüft anhand von Befragungsdaten die Einstellung der Schweizer Wahlbevölkerung zu verschiedenen Formen freier Schulwahl. Die Befunde zeigen, dass eine Finanzierung der privaten Schulen mit öffentlichen Geldern klar abgelehnt wird, während eine freie Schulwahl zwischen...
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Education policy opinions and preferences of teachers are important not only in shaping public opinion, they also play … a key role in ensuring the acceptance, and hence the implementation, of education reforms. While media communicates a … great deal about the education policy preferences of the organised teaching body, we know little to nothing about how much …
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the research performance of individual researchers in the field of education sciences in Switzerland. In order to take … into account the specificities of publication practices of researchers in education sciences, the analyses are based on two …
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education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …
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This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...
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education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of the voucher program on earnings, employment, and subsequent … education 1year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: low-educated individuals are most likely to profit from adult … education, but least likely to use the voucher. In addition, the public voucher program appears to crowd out firm …
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education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …
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In many countries on the European continent, it is feared that public funding of tertiary education (university and non … education, which on the one hand takes into account the influence of existing wage structures and such institutional factors as … the cost of education and the fiscal system, and on the other hand produces results that are relatively easy to interpret …
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influence the propensity of politicians to spend on education. Using a panel of the Swiss Cantons for the period from 1990 to … 2002, we find that the education system has exhibited little elasticity in adjusting to changes in the school … public education. …
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
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