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-native achievement gaps, but we find evidence for a detrimental impact for less integrated migrants. …
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-native achievement gaps, but we find evidence for a detrimental impact for less integrated migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206859
of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …
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transmission mechanism for the origin-country school quality effects. It also assesses the empirical merits of two alternative … migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …
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This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...
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somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
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country of birth and age at immigration. Second-generation American adults have the highest level of schooling, exceeding that … of the foreign born and of the native born with native-born parents. Teenage immigration is associated with fewer years …
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