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A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany
Krueger, Alan B. - 1996
Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the … determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county level … is taken into account. The relative number of foreigners in a country has no relationship with the incidence of ethnic …
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Married to Intolerance : Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
Voigtländer, Nico - 2013
attitudes persisted in Germany during the last century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes …
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
Barro, Robert J. - 1993
Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings : Evidence from the German Short School Year
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2003
This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year...
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Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
Borjas, George J. - 2000
The large literature that analyzes the impact of immigration on the United States typically focuses on measuring the labor market and fiscal consequences. This literature, however, has ignored the impact of immigration on other sectors of society. One sector that is of great interest is the...
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The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants
Butcher, Kristin F. - 1999
have a very different offense mix from native-born inmates, with foreigners much more likely to be serving time for drug … (6-12 percent) longer terms (conditional upon sentence length) than natives or other similar' foreigners. These longer …
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Does Cultural Origin Affect Saving Behavior? Evidence from Immigrants
Carroll, Christopher D. - 1998
Because efforts to explain international saving differentials using traditional economic variables have not been very successful (Bosworth, 1993), some economists have proposed that national saving differences reflect cultural differences. We attempt to test that hypothesis by using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472241
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The Globalization of Postsecondary Education : The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
Bound, John; Braga, Breno; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple. This rise in enrollment and degree attainment affects the global supply of highly educated workers, the flow of talent to the US labor market, and the financing of US higher...
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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2017
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B visa issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. However, this cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and...
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