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How do social networks affect labor markets?
Schmutte, Ian - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they …, productive, and profitable. In aggregate, referral networks help “grease the wheels” of a labor market that can be beset by a … range of information problems. However, such networks can also be segmented along racial, ethnic, and socio-economic lines …
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
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Migrants and educational achievement gaps
Entorf, Horst - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their native-born schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) February, pp. 1-10
Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156481
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Migrants and educational achievement gaps
Entorf, Horst - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10
As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their native-born schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...
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What drives the language proficiency of immigrants?
Isphording, Ingo E. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Language proficiency is a key driver of immigrant integration. It increases job opportunities and facilitates social …
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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The role of preschool in reducing inequality
Waldfogel, Jane - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Children from disadvantaged families have lower levels of school readiness when they enter school than do children from more advantaged families. Many countries have tried to reduce this inequality through publicly provided preschool. Evidence on the potential of these programs to reduce...
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984684