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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Vers une nouvelle géographie du chômage ?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2003 During the 1990s, regional unemployment disparities in Great Britain underwent a profound change. The traditional gap between the North and the South, which had widened during the 1980s, began to narrow significantly during the following decade.
Victor Sarafian
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Unemployment Dynamics, Duration and Equilibrium: Evidence from Britain [PDF]
This paper challenges the consensus on the nature of unemployment dynamics in Britain. We show that the argument that changes in unemployment arise mostly from changes in the duration of unemployment (rather than in the chance of becoming unemployed) is ...
Simon Burgess, H Turon
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson +2 more
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A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from ...
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An extra time duration model with application to unemployment duration under benefits in Spain [PDF]
This paper postulates that the effect of unemployment benefits on the hazard rates changes considerably using a traditional duration model that uses only unemployment insurance (UI) data, or deals with unemployment assistance (UA) as a mere extension of ...
José Mª Arranz, Juan Muro
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Breaking point: Identifying the factors that predict suspension from school
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School suspensions are associated with adverse educational and psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how structural disadvantage, relational factors, health behaviours, well‐being indicators and school‐level factors jointly predict suspension risk in England.
Stephanie Cahill +5 more
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Duration of unemployment and depression: a cross-sectional survey in Lithuania
BMC Public Health, 2006 Background In spite of a growing economy, unemployment is still a severe socio-economic problem in Lithuania. Nonetheless, no studies have been performed about the associations between unemployment and mental health in Lithuania.
Starkuviene Skirmante +3 more
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Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey [PDF]
There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey.
Tansel, Aysit, Tasci, H. Mehmet
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The increasing heterogeneity of learning needs and preconditions in inclusive mainstream classrooms entails that not all learners are equally able to meet the regular learning objectives. In response, various integrative measures have been implemented to tailor instruction to students' individual needs.
Robin Benz +2 more
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