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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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This paper is concerned with analyzing the occupational status of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the mid-19th century to help fill a gap in the literature. It does this by using the 1/100 microdata sample from the 1850 Census of Population, the first census to ask occupation....
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religious institutions-particularly the Southern Baptist church-played a key role in the development of the Lost Cause mythology …
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This paper analyzes the occupational status of adult White foreign-born men in the antebellum United States, compared to White native-born men, and among the foreign born by country of origin. Hypotheses are developed regarding the effects on occupational status of human capital, demographic,...
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This paper is concerned with analyzing the occupational attainment of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the mid-19th century to help fill a gap in the literature on Jewish achievement. It does this by using the full count (100 percent) microdata file from the 1850 Census of...
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This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing …'s education from ages 5 to 15. Significant gaps in test scores and parental investment are found between children from lower and …
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subsequent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related education and labour market outcomes. Using three …, female students enrolled in higher secondary education have 9 percentage points lower probability than male students to study …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even …
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, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers’ region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …
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Disparities in cognition persist between non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences stemming from structural racism. However, the relationship between school racial segregation and...
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