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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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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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We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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