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Segregation in Education and Labour Market Discrimination: The Role of Peer Beliefs
Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In this paper we examine the long term effects of socialization and segregation in schools, on labour market outcomes … decisions (whether to hire a state or a private school graduate). We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for segregation …
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School Choice and Quality
Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a large cross-section of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children’s attendance of public and private schools and parents’ assessments of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...
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The Illusion of School Choice: Empirical Evidence from Barcelona
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Güell, Maia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students’ educational outcomes. Yet, the concern is that disadvantaged families are less able to exercise choice, which raises (3) equity concerns. The Boston mechanism (BM) is a procedure that is widely used...
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The desegregating effect of school tracking
De Fraja, Gianni; Martinez Mora, Francisco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
according to their ability, may lead to an increase in income residential segregation. It does so in a simple model where … where perfect income segregation would be the only stable outcome without tracking. …
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups within the same country. The second goal … is to correlate measures of segregation with measures of quality of the polity and policymaking. The third is to … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality. …
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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...
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Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data
Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from the early eighties to the late nineties with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect obtained as a...
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Credit Standards and Segregation
Ouazad, Amine; Rancière, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
How do credit standards on the mortgage market affect neighbourhood choice and the resulting level of urban segregation … relaxation of credit standards can either increase or decrease segregation, depending on racial income gaps and on races …-2006 mortgage credit boom on the level of school segregation. Census tract racial composition is strongly correlated with the racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873328
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College Diversity and Investment Incentives
Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation …
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