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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262582
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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2011
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282530
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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286904
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Roma children in the transformational recession - Widening ethnic schooling gap and Roma poverty in post-communist Hungary
Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2005
The Roma or "Gypsies" are Europe's largest and poorest ethnic minority. Nearly 80 per cent of them live in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Roma - Non-Roma educational gap, always substantial but slowly closing in the communist years, widened again after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494667
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343
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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany
Fertig, Michael - 2004
This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data collected in the 1999 wave of the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP).To this end, leisure-time activities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261023
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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany
Fertig, Michael - 2004
This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data collected in the 1999 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). To this end, leisure-time activities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261964
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PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes
Entorf, Horst; Minoiu, Nicoleta - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261789
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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
the USA. The first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants? educational disadvantage. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141
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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297318