asylum, are compared to a matched sample of native-born workers. Employing recentered influence function (RIF) quantile … regressions to wage earnings for the period 2011-2015, the occupational-task-based Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach shows … overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …

on how polytechnics degrees pay off compared to university degrees. In this paper, we estimate the polytechnic degree … shorter duration of these degrees. While this result is robust to several checks, the penalty is found to be more pronounced … capital gap of polytechnic degrees compared to university degrees. …

achievement. Chapter 3 examines dropout from a mentoring program designed to help disadvantaged adolescents and analyzes a program … agency's cost-benefit trade-offs in the decision to target additional interventions to prevent dropout. Chapter 4 … investigates public opinion towards targeted financial support and the role of external circumstances compared to own effort for …