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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233794
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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822852
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Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia
Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
depending on migrants origins and the type of assets. Understanding migrants' wealth and their perceived degree of assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733806
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The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances
Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279245