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A regional analysis of the earnings of immigrants

Bellante, Don; Kogut, Carl A. - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 29 (1999) 3, pp. 242-254

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Educational mismatches for second generation migrants : an analysis of applied science graduates in the Netherlands

Falcke, Swantje; Meng, Christoph; Nollen, Romy - 2016

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Out of the shadows and into the classroom : immigrant legalization, hispanic schooling and hispanic representation on school boards

Sabet, Navid - 2023

I exploit the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized millions of Hispanic migrants in the USA …, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … public schools with greater exposure to IRCA migrants. This effect is driven by increased Hispanic enrollment, while whites …

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Barriers to immigrant assimilation evidence on grading bias in Ecuadorian high schools

Rangel, Marcos A.; Marotta, Luana; Van der Werf, Cynthia; … - 2024

We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....

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Migrants and educational achievement gaps : avoiding segregation and compensating for parental disadvantage can reduce migrants' educational achievement gabs

Entorf, Horst - 2015

As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants …

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Do better pre-migration skills accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 212-222

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Beyond the average : peer heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education

Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - 2014

Estimating the effect of "ethnic capital" on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on...

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Ethnic capital and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment

Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017

This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...

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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages

Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...

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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010

Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015

The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...

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