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- Lindahl, Lena, 1973-
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A comparison of family and neighborhood effects on grades, test scores, educational attainment and income - evidence from Sweden
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Ingår i: Journal of Economic Inequality. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1569-1721 .- 1573-8701. ; 9:2, s. 207-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper compares sibling and neighborhood correlations in school performance, educational attainment and income as a way to learn whether the neighborhood where a child grows up in might explain parts of the sibling similarities found in previous sibling correlation studies. The data are based on a cohort of nearly 13,000 individuals born in 1953 and their siblings, all of whom grew up in the Stockholm area. The results show that neighborhood correlations are in general very small and in particular they are much smaller than the sibling correlations. Living in the same neighborhood does not seem to add much to the sibling similarities.
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- Lindahl, Lena, 1973-
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Improving the school-to-work transition for vocational students - What can we learn from research?
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many countries have had to tackle escalating youth unemployment in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, but compared with other countries in the European Union, youth unemployment has increased particularly sharply in Sweden. Currently, Swedish 20-24 year olds are more than three times as likely to be unemployed than are adult workers, which is the greatest such ratio within the EU-15. The bulk of youth unemployment spells starts directly after upper secondary school ends, which in turn suggests special attention should be directed to the interaction of vocational education and labor markets. This paper discusses in the light of international research findings how to ease the transition from school into the labor market for vocational students. The evidence discussed in the paper centers on which educational structures lead to good labor market outcomes for vocational students and especially what we know about the relative merits of workplace- and school-based education and the role of employer contacts.
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