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population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
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). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
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on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … Germany who lose ground on other groups. …
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also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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