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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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Education Policies and Migration Across European Countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2016
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997448
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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134291
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Bergström, Lina - 2010
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136948
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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
Halla, Martin - 2012
-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105985
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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement : Evidence from a Placement Policy
Aslund, Olof - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154995
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Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood
Boschman, Sanne - 2014
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received little attention so far is that some residents will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046651
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Educational Attainment and Neighbourhood Outcomes : Differences between Highly-Educated Natives and Non-Western Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
de Vuijst, Elise - 2017
In the Netherlands, obtaining a higher education increases the chance to move to a better neighbourhood for native Dutch adults who grew up in a deprived parental neighbourhood. For non-Western minorities, education does not have this positive effect on socio-spatial mobility. In this study we...
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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany : Moving with Natives or Stuck in Their Neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149506
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127958