The theoretical contribution of this paper is to regard teachers’ evaluations with a prognostic claim aboutstudents’ future academic ability as a result of a special social situation in the classroom. We assume thatafter teachers have framed the social situation, particular scripts of action...

The substantial aim of this paper is to integrate the main idea of 'Pygmalion' orself-fullling prophecy research (Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968; Jussim and Har-ber, 2005) into the general subjective expected utility framework about inequalityin educational opportunities (Breen and Goldthorpe, 1997;...

Als hilfreiche analytische Unterscheidung hinsichtlich der Ursachen für sozialeUngleichheiten bei Bildungszugang und -erfolg hat sich die Unterscheidung desfranzösischen Soziologen Raymond Boudon (Boudon 1974) zwischen primärenund sekundären Herkunftseffekten in der wissenschaftlichen und...

Self-employment for disabled people is significant from anumber of different policy perspectives:• promoting entrepreneurship among disadvantagedgroups (one of the aims of the SmallBusiness Service),• narrowing the gap in employment rates betweendisabled people and the rest of the population...

In this paper, I present a theory of dynamic economic growth, business cycles, and asset pricing that integrates (1) Marx's idea (and emphasized by Klein) of a two-class heterogeneity of the ownership structure of physical capital and human capital in a capitalist society, (2) Keynes' idea of...

With a foreigner share of almost 20 percent and a traditionally tight labourmarket, Switzerland has evolved into an immigration country against its own intention. In thepast, many low-qualified workers originally recruited on a temporary basis were allowed tosettle in Switzerland. This approach...

We consider asymmetric kernel density estimators and smoothed histogramswhen the unknown probability density function f is defined on [0, +∞). Uniform weak consistency on each compact set in [0, +∞) is proved for these estimators when "f" is continuous on its support. Weak convergence in L...

We cionsider semiparmetric assymetric kernel density estimators when the unkonwn density has support on [0,∞). We provide a unifying framework which contains assymmetric kernel versions of several semiparametric density estimators considered previously in the literature. This framework allows...