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Peer reviewedKettunen, Juha – Economics of Education Review, 1997
Studies the relationship between education level and probability of re-employment, using Labor Ministry data on 2,077 Finnish unemployed persons. Models of search theory predict that those with less than nine years of education and those with master's, licentiate, or doctor's degrees have the lowest re-employment probabilities. Unemployed persons…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Bulcock, J. W. – 1981
The use of the two-stage least squares (2 SLS) procedure for estimating nonrecursive social science models is often impractical when multiple feedback linkages are required. This is because 2 SLS is extremely sensitive to multicollinearity. The standard statistical solution to the multicollinearity problem is a biased, variance reduced procedure…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedKirjavainen, Tanja; Loikkanen, Heikki A. – Economics of Education Review, 1998
Studied efficiency differences in Finnish senior secondary schools by Data Envelopment Analysis, using four variant models. Average efficiencies in the most extensive models were 82% to 84%. Considering parents' educational level increased average efficiency to 91%. Tobit analysis showed school size did not affect efficiency. Input and output…
Descriptors: Class Size, Diversity (Student), Efficiency, Foreign Countries
