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Toms Rostoks

0000-0001-9758-5866

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Flipping burgers or flipping pages? Student employment and academic attainment in post-Soviet Latvia

2007

Latvian higher education has undergone a dramatic transition since 1991. This study employs a survey of nearly 1000 social science students studying in 13 different institutions in Latvia to consider the impact of the increase in the number of students who are working while studying. Evidence indicates employment has a strong and significant negative impact on school performance, and the negative impact increases as weekly hours worked increase. This manifests itself through reduced class attendance and reduced time spent in independent study. Finally, we find that the probability of student employment is most significantly affected by the availability of financial aid, gender, ethnicity, a…

Independent studySociology and Political ScienceHigher educationbusiness.industryEthnic groupAttendanceLatvianDevelopmentHuman capitalStudent employmentlanguage.human_languageSchool performanceLawlanguageDemographic economicsSociologybusinessCommunist and Post-Communist Studies
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The 2015 Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

2016

Economics and EconometricsPresidency05 social sciencesLatvianGeneral Business Management and Accountinglanguage.human_language0506 political science03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinePolitical sciencePolitical Science and International RelationsEuropean integration050602 political science & public administrationlanguageEconomic historymedia_common.cataloged_instance030212 general & internal medicineBusiness and International ManagementEuropean unionmedia_commonJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
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Promocijas darbs

2008

Elektroniskā versija nesatur pielikumus

Politikas zinātne (politoloģija)Socioloģija politoloģija antropoloģijaPolitikas zinātne
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