This paper provides an assessment of Goos and Manning's (2007) polarised or 'hour-glass' labout market thesis, which they claim has been caused by a period of routinisation where labout engaged in routine task occupations has been replaced by computer capital. It uses data taken from two waves...

This paper explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries and immigrant communities can explain differences in the educational achievement of immigrant children. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we performed analyses on the mathematical...