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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
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greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …. Educational losses may translate into significant national income losses over time. …
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …
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firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income … the economic background of their parents. This influence on wages is significant and relatively greater than the impact of …
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students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …
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This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary education graduates in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses data from the nationwide tracer survey of Polish graduates (Graduate Tracer Study 2007) and regresses the...
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