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One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a … relationship between education and voter turnout. Moreover, country-specific institutional and economic factors do not explain the … education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest …
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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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In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document … increases in education acquisition by people from relatively rich family backgrounds. At the same time, wage differentials for … the more educated have risen. Putting these two together (more education for people from richer backgrounds and an …
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academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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enrolled in schools. When it comes to those aged 20 or over, the proportion undergoing education is higher among women but a …
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
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The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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