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classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school …
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents' destination countries. This … paper presents and discusses comparative evidence on the performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in these …
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Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of that system are (a) firm-based training programs accompanied by a schoolbased component (of one to two days per week), in which apprentices acquire upper secondary general...
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