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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
fertility by age at migration as sometimes observed on education or labor market outcomes. Instead, there is an inverted U shape … relationship between age of migration and immigrant fertility, with those migrating in their late teens having the highest … fertility rates when compared to natives. This pattern appears among migrants from all origins – although their fertility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854774
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Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a "non-qualified only" policy to one that … favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of this change on the schooling outcomes of … migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment) results from 2000, which were not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646284
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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
The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245919
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The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training
Aslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted … arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … similar for men and women, and present for migrants from different parts of the world. The bonus had a less clear impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884282
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The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic
O'Higgins, Niall; Brüggemann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
papers which take a parametric approach assuming common support between Roma and non-Roma, the non-parametric matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884288
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959613
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395439
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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayioglu-Tayfur, Meltem; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739421
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Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; van Ham, Maarten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684918
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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Hotz, V. Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The low number of college graduates with science degrees – particularly among under-represented minorities – is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...
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