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Evaluating the effectiveness of a mentoring program for Indigenous trainees in Australia using propensity score analysis

Traineeships have been shown to be successful in generating improved labour market outcomes and are often recommend... Show more
Traineeships have been shown to be successful in generating improved labour market outcomes and are often recommended as a policy option for disadvantaged youth. Regretfully data indicate that one such target group, Indigenous Australians, continues to have lower traineeship completion rates than the non-Indigenous. To address this issue, a program of mentoring for Indigenous students has been implemented in Australia. This paper provides the first quantitative evaluation of this mentoring program by using propensity score matching techniques. Post-matching analysis indicates the program increased the completion rate of Indigenous trainees by approximately 10 per cent.
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Authors: Mangan, John; Trendle, Bernard

Date: 2019

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Evaluation; Indigenous people; Traineeship ... [+] Show more
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The role of high-school duration for university students' motivation, abilities and achievements

We study the effects of learning intensity and duration of high school on students' motivation, abilities and achie... Show more
We study the effects of learning intensity and duration of high school on students' motivation, abilities and achievements at university. The empirical analysis is based on primary panel data from an education reform in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt that reduced university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years but left the curriculum unchanged. The estimates show some impacts on students' perceptions of learning abilities, but the probability of university drop-out and the final grade remain unchanged. By and large, the findings indicate that students affected by the reform are similarly motivated and skilled compared to the counterfactual situation.
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Authors: Meyer, Tobias; Thomsen, Stephan L.

Date: 2018

Geographic subjects: Germany; Europe

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Students; Outcomes
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Returns to investment in education: a decennial review of the global literature

In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been several compilations i... Show more
In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been several compilations in the literature. This paper updates Psacharopoulos and Patrinos and reviews the latest trends and patterns based on 1120 estimates in 139 countries from 1950 to 2014. The private average global return to a year of schooling is 9 per cent a year. Private returns to higher education increased, raising issues of financing and equity. Social returns to schooling remain high. Women continue to experience higher average returns to schooling, showing that girls' education remains a priority.
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Authors: Psacharopoulos, George; Patrinos, Harry Anthony

Date: 2018

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Outcomes; Equity; Gender ... [+] Show more
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Credit where credit is due: an approach to education returns based on Shapley values

We propose the use of methods based on the Shapley value to assess the fact that private returns to lower levels of... Show more
We propose the use of methods based on the Shapley value to assess the fact that private returns to lower levels of educational attainment should be credited with part of the returns from higher attainment levels, since achieving primary education is a necessary condition to enter secondary and tertiary educational levels. We apply the proposed adjustment to a global dataset of private returns to different educational attainment levels and find that the corrected returns to education imply a large shift of returns from tertiary to primary schooling in countries at all income levels.
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Authors: Barakat, Bilal; Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo

Date: 2017

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Income; Outcomes
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Immigrants' educational mismatch and the penalty of over-education

This paper analyses immigrants' educational mismatch and its impact on wages in Spain. The incidence of immigrants'... Show more
This paper analyses immigrants' educational mismatch and its impact on wages in Spain. The incidence of immigrants' education-occupation mismatch in the Spanish labour market can largely be explained by the mismatch in the last job held in the home country. The probability of having been over-educated in the home country has a higher effect on the probability of being over-educated in the first job in Spain. Those who were over-educated in their first job are more likely to continue being over-educated in their current job in Spain. Finally, over-educated immigrants earn significantly lower wages compared to their non-over-educated counterparts.
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Authors: Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob

Date: 2017

Geographic subjects: Spain; Europe

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Qualifications; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Attrition and retention of apprentices: an exploration of event history data using a multi-state modelling framework

There is widespread public concern at the high drop-out rates among apprentices in Australia. This paper argues tha... Show more
There is widespread public concern at the high drop-out rates among apprentices in Australia. This paper argues that this concern may be misplaced as it fails to allow for eventual completion over time. [The authors] argue that a methodology that concentrates on a single training episode only is less appropriate to evaluating training outcomes in a regime where apprentices routinely record multiple episodes of training. This paper uses a multi-state approach to model the behaviour of a large sample of apprentices over a 60 month period which proves well suited to the episodic nature of cases observed in the data.
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Authors: Mangan, John; Trendle, Bernard

Date: 2017

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Apprenticeship; Participation; Research ... [+] Show more
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Ethnic gaps in educational attainment and labor-market outcomes: evidence from France

We use data from the Trajectoires et Origines survey to analyze ethnic gaps in education and labor-market outcomes ... Show more
We use data from the Trajectoires et Origines survey to analyze ethnic gaps in education and labor-market outcomes between second-generation immigrants and their French-native counterparts. Our three main findings underscore the importance of family background in explaining lifelong ethnic inequalities. First, second-generation immigrants are on average less likely to experience education success than their native counterparts, with the education gap mainly being rooted in ethnic differences in family backgrounds. Second, while second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment and lower wages than natives, both gaps are mainly explained by the differences in education. Third, we find considerable heterogeneity across ethnic groups.
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Authors: Langevin, Gabin; Masclet, David; Moizeau, Fabien; Peterle, Emmanuel

Date: 2017

Geographic subjects: Europe; France

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Employment; Participation; Equity ... [+] Show more
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Training funds and the incidence of training: the case of Mauritius

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes t... Show more
Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital-intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are liquidity constrained. If firms are not liquidity constrained, the fund could lower training investments. Using an administrative data set on the Mauritius training fund, we find that the firms most likely to train pay more in taxes than they gain in subsidies. The smallest firms receive more benefits than they pay in taxes.
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Authors: Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Rojid, Sawkut; Vodopivec, Milan

Date: 2016

Geographic subjects: Mauritius; Africa

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Finance; Outcomes; Industry ... [+] Show more
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Who is overeducated and why?: probit and dynamic mixed multinomial logit analyses of vertical mismatch in East and West Germany

Overeducation potentially signals a productivity loss. With Socio-Economic Panel data from 1984 to 2011 we identify... Show more
Overeducation potentially signals a productivity loss. With Socio-Economic Panel data from 1984 to 2011 we identify drivers of educational mismatch for East and West medium and highly educated Germans. Addressing measurement error, state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity, we run dynamic mixed multinomial logit models for three different measures of educational mismatch. We find that overeducation is mainly state dependent. Results largely hinge on the selected specification. Yet, robust results are that employment experience decreases and past unemployment increases the mismatch risk. An employer change [seldom] serves as a suitable escape strategy, nor does a dual qualification save graduates from entering overeducation.
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Authors: Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Schomann, Klaus

Date: 2016

Geographic subjects: Germany; Europe

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Statistics; Outcomes ... [+] Show more
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The effects of delaying tracking in secondary school: evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland

Delaying tracking, extending students' exposure to a general academic education and increasing their time on task o... Show more
Delaying tracking, extending students' exposure to a general academic education and increasing their time on task on basic competences (reading, mathematics) could improve academic outcomes. To test the hypothesis that delayed vocational streaming improves academic outcomes, this paper analyzes Poland's significant improvements in international achievement tests and the restructuring of the system which expanded general schooling. Estimates using propensity-score matching and difference-in-differences estimates show that delaying vocational education and increasing time on task have a positive and significant impact on student performance on the order of a standard deviation.
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Authors: Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Porta, Emilio Ernesto; Wisniewski, Jerzy

Date: 2016

Geographic subjects: Poland; Europe

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Education economics

Subjects: Students; Performance; Outcomes ... [+] Show more

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