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Disparities in Labour Market and Income Trends during the First Year of the COVID-19 Crisis – Evidence from Germany

Braband, Carsten; Consiglio, Valentina Sara; Grabka, … - 2022

This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis using SOEP-CoV data. It shows that, overall, the self-employed and disadvantaged groups of workers were more severely affected by the...

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Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries from the 2000 and 2003 rounds of the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), using...

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Social segregation in secondary schools: how does England compare with other countries?

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke … - 2006

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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...

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Worries across Time and Age in Germany: Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions

Rohrer, Julia; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which … influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War, with a considerable number of … effects – worries about various topics such as health and the general economic situation increase with age. With increasing …

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The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19

Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...

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Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game

Bissonnette, Luc; Bellemare, Charles; Kröger, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function of an economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) random variable. The method proposed exploits information collected using a small number of probability questions on...

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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011

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Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia

Goedhuys, Micheline; Grimm, Michael; Meysonnat, Aline; … - 2021

Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number of policy interventions is targeting the youth, but to monitor the progress a better...

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