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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture

Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living …

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School and Drugs: Closing the Gap – Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...

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Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

impact of a 1999 law that granted all workers with children younger than 7 years old protection against a layoff if the … worker had previously asked for a work-week reduction due to family responsibilities. As only mothers took advantage of these …

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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...

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Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training

Biavaschi, Costanza; Eichhorst, Werner; Giulietti, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and education policies. We highlight the role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market...

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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Vegas, Raquel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in terms of employment status at arrival). Among...

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Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain

Farré, Lídia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. Despite being considerably more educated than natives and other migrants, they are less likely to...

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A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World

Eichhorst, Werner; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Schmidl, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper provides a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational...

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Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Vegas, Raquel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

prior to and at arrival, family-based immigrants are less likely to work than their labor-based counterparts both at arrival …

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