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Immigration background and the intergenerational correlation in education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trong Ha Nguyen - 2010
Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975187
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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Nguyen, Ha Trong - 2011
Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194574
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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement : The Role of Institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118215
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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133372
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Do selection criteria make a difference? : Visa category and the labour market status of immigrants to Australia
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: The economic record : er 76 (2000), pp. 15-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001466394
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Immigration background and the intergenerational correlation in education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trong Ha Nguyen - 2010
Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003977173
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratifi cation literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579650
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Migrant youths' educational achievement : the role of institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011
teachers. -- Migrant youths ; PISA test scores ; schools ; institutions ; academic achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581046
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307310
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310812