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This study was prepared by Martin Schlotter while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Econcomics at the University of Munich in November 2011. It addresses the effects of different early...
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the host countries and how immigration affects natives …
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Because the value of preschool child care is under intensive debate among both policymakers and society in general, this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also examines differences in outcomes based on child...
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Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate....
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Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate....
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational … Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial disparities between educational achievements of immigrants and natives, we … find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit high intergenerational mobility and no less opportunity than natives …
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