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Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.

Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...

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Unilingual versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Ortega, Javier; Tangeraas, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual … education system, under which the individuals who take education become bilingual, with a unilingual system, under which the … optimal when education levels are centralized. In the decentralized equilibrium, individuals (i) vote over education systems …

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School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes

Marks, Gary; Ainley, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

Achieving well in school, and completing Year 12, have significant employment and earnings outcomes for young people a decade or more after leaving school. Early school leavers have less chance of securing full-time employment, and a problematic early start in the labor market can be difficult...

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

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Cannabis Use and Its Effects on Health, Education and Labor Market Success

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate …

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this accomplishment? The theoretical literature and attendant empirical evidence are inconclusive. Using data for 2.9 million wage earners in Hungary we find that the male/female difference...

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Does Longevity Cause Growth?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Alessie, Rob; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labour and Education Choices

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

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