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Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …

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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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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

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Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden: An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment

Celikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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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The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Eriksen, Tine Louise Mundbjerg; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added

Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987–2005

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in … education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy …

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Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …

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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether … resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …

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