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This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables (IV), point to a substantial earnings return to Spanish proficiency, of approximately 27%. This...
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setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students …
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selection bias: the different composition of students opting and not opting for studying abroad. The purpose of this paper is to … market and education systems?Third, do the returns to ISM differ according to the socio-economic background of the students …
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data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being … students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation …
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turmoil pushed the exposed population toward medium- and low-income occupations, and compressed their wages toward the minimum …
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …
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Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
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weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …
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application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …
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students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised …
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