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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
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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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth
Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge … and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does … not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link is the mechanism converting knowledge into economically relevant …
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
-biased technological change was due to a growth in ``Baconian knowledge'' and international trade. Simulations show that the model does a …
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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Task trade and the employment pattern: the offshoring and onshoring of Brazilian firms
Ehrl, Philipp - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of an expansion of imported intermediate inputs on establishments’ average task intensities and employment size in a middle-income country. I use confidential matched employer-employee data and information on trade transactions for the universe of Brazilian firms....
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
unskilled-labor-biased. Increasing basic knowledge causes a growth takeoff, an income-led demand for fewer educated children …
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