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Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...

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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women: Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011

possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter ….S territories seem to be more inclined to welfare usage in comparison to US born White women. …

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Low-skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools

Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-ling - 2009

This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...

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Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return

Henderson, Daniel J.; Polachek, Solomon; Wang, Le - 2011

This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to education both across and within groups. Similar to previous studies we find that on average blacks...

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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …

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Pre-School Enrollment : An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Chiswick, Barry R.; DebBurman, Noyna - 2004

There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit...

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Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED

Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002

In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies between U.S. natives and the foreign-born. We find that foreignborn men who hold a GED but received...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Do significant immigrant inflows create negative education impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina public school system

Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2012

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states. Given the perceived negative impact of significant immigrant inflows, we are interested in investigating if these inflows into a school affect the academic performance of native students who remain. To...

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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...

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