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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … case in point. Little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of … efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …
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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...
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There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …. We find a positive effect of engineering education on the propensity to patent, and a negative OLS bias. Our …
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largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life--the education of the …
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insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …
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