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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL TRAINING AND EARNINGS PREMIUMS IN TAIWAN

Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph; Wherry, … - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 4, pp. 527-560

International capital mobility and economic restructuring have brought training and skills acquisition to the forefront of policy dialogues. Taiwan has gone beyond most countries in promoting vocational education and setting strict quotas for schooling. Although the education plans do not have...

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School and Residential Ethnic Segregation: An Analysis of Variations across England's Local Education Authorities

Johnston, Ron; Burgess, Simon; Wilson, Deborah; Harris, … - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 9, pp. 973-990

Johnston R., Burgess S., Wilson D. and Harris R. (2006) School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of … composition of both schools and small residential areas, this paper explores not only the extent of ethnic segregation in England …'s schools, but also whether that segregation is greater than the underpinning segregation in the country's residential areas …

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Education liaisons work to improve educational outcomes of foster youth: A mixed methods case study

Weinberg, Lois A.; Oshiro, Michael; Shea, Nancy - In: Children and Youth Services Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 45-52

Education liaisons have been used to address educational barriers of foster youth and improve their educational outcomes. This mixed methods case study tests three propositions related to the educational outcomes of 32 foster youth whose education was supported by four education liaisons. The...

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Does the early bird catch the worm?

Puhani, Patrick; Weber, Andrea - In: Empirical Economics 32 (2007) 2, pp. 359-386

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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - In: Journal of Population Economics 24 (2011) 4, pp. 1257-1279

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Religion, religiosity and educational attainment of immigrants to the USA

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: Review of Economics of the Household 9 (2011) 4, pp. 539-553

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On the relative rewards to immigration: a comparison of the relative labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - In: Review of Economics of the Household 8 (2010) 1, pp. 147-169

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Integrating Turkish communities: a German dilemma

Mueller, Claus - In: Population Research and Policy Review 25 (2006) 5, pp. 419-441

The social and economic integration of the Turkish minority into German society reflects a systemic problem to which policy makers have not yet found a response. Marginalized by the larger society and separated by cultural and religious life styles, a significant proportion of the Turkish...

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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on …, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily …

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