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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268855
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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277101
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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education
Schüller, Simone - 2012
exploiting within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education in moderating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291416
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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262250
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Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network – representing 20-33% of the frontier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497917
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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653471
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The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … displacement across universities and degree types after enrolment, although these outcomes are rare occurrences. In line with the … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351726
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Inequality of Learning amongst Immigrant Children in Industrialised Countries
Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822206