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immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection … into schools, and find that the presence of immigrant students has a positive effect on the academic achievement of US … negatively the performance of affluent US-born students, who typically show a higher academic achievement compared to immigrant …
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immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection … into schools, and find that the presence of immigrant students has a positive effect on the academic achievement of US … negatively the performance of affluent US-born students, who typically show a higher academic achievement compared to immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496150
Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, von welchen sozio-ökonomischen und beruflichen Merkmalen die Teilnahme an formeller und informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und...
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The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects among German selfemployed and employed workers in 1991/92. Participation in continuous formal training is more frequently observed with employed workers, whereas self-employed are...
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348742
-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and … immigrant students living in 37 different countries. …
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We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052560