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Literature examining immigrants’ educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...
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This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through … which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making …
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We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European … natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … findings show that higher education leads to a more positive attitude toward immigrants. We also investigate the mechanisms …
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The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …
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immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … of both early childhood investment and the structure of the education system faced by young adolescents in determining …
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … and the quality of education in these schools. Our review of the literature, which includes both quantitative and …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …
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This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual's labour market performance, Spain offers an important...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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