Artikel
The impacts of shortening secondary school duration
The main goal of secondary school education in developed countries is to prepare students for higher education and the labor market. That demands high investments in study duration and specialized fields to meet rising skill requirements. However, these demands for more education are in opposition to calls for early entry to the labor market, to lengthen working lives to meet the rising costs associated with an aging population and to enable the intergenerational transfer of skills. One way to lengthen working lives is to shorten the duration of secondary school, an option recently implemented in Canada and Germany. The empirical evidence shows mixed effects.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2015 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
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learning intensity
compression of curricula
education choice
personality traits
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Thomsen, Stephan L.
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.15185/izawol.166
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2025-03-10T11:42:37+0100
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Thomsen, Stephan L.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015