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Educating children with disabilities : comparative evidence from Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Niger

Hang’andu, Privilege; Mensah, Emmanuel Kodwo; … - 2023

equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded …. Realizing the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities requires policies and practices that are tailored to … and key informant interviews), this chapter explores the inclusiveness, equality, and quality of education for children …

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Impact of early childhood school intervention on enrollment and learning outcomes : evaluation of a public program in India

Bhattacharya, Nilanjan; Pakrashi, Debayan; Saha, Sarani; … - 2023

Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …-primary sections of the government schools. However, the rise in enrollment did not translate into improved performance of the students …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

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Who is in favor of immigration

Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019

Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...

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A broken social elevator? : employment outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020

This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that first-generation immigrants face a...

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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The wage premium from foreign language skills

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

foreign language and 5% of Poles earn their income abroad. We use data from three waves (2012-2014) of the Human Capital …

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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born...

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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo; Baert, Stijn - 2017

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short-run (end-of-year evaluation) and in the long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to other evaluation approaches, this model captures essential treatment heterogeneity and...

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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024

This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...

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