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exploiting within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education in moderating the …
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, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …
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Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...
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We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that … targeted rather than generic policies in this area could reduce the extent of the education-occupation mismatch amongst …
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The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …
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immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … of both early childhood investment and the structure of the education system faced by young adolescents in determining …
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …
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attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education’s impact. Moreover, observable …
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Literature examining immigrants’ educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...
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This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through … which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making …
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