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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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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed …
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This Paper analyses transitions into and out of three different labour market states: social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish...
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The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration. In this paper we examine the proportions of highly educated among …
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …
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Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status in France from 1968 to 1999. For that purpose, we use longitudinal data coming from a panel dataset which follows almost 1% of the French population from 1968 to 1999 through...
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This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …
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