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OECD Reviews of Migrant Education: Norway 2010
Taguma, Miho; Shewbridge, Claire; Huttova, Jana; … - 2010
By international standards, Norway has an inclusive education system. However, immigrant students, on average, have weaker education outcomes than their native peers at all levels of education. Norway is undertaking universal and targeted measures to improve the situation of immigrant students....
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Where Immigrant Students Succeed : A Comparative Review of Performance and Engagement in PISA 2003
2006
Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing information on countries’ approaches to the...
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How Are School Systems Adapting to Increasing Numbers of Immigrant Students?
2011
Whether in flight from conflict, with the hope of building a better life, or to seize a social or economic opportunity, people have been crossing borders for as long as there have been borders to cross. Modern means of transportation and communication, the globalisation of the labour market, and...
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What Makes School Systems Perform? : Seeing School Systems through the Prism of PISA
2004
in students’ backgrounds. Countries covered: Canada, England, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden. …
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Industry training in Australia, Sweden and the United States
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - 1993
Ein Expertenteam untersuchte im Auftrag der OECD das "Industrie-Training" in Australien, Schweden und den Vereinigten …
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Intra-firm trade
Bonturi, Marcos - 1993
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Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries : Smoothing the Path
2006
In demystifying the concept of market-like instruments, this study explains how to make better use of market-like instruments in fisheries management by identifying practical steps that can be taken to further their use. The findings of the study are based on a survey of the use of market-like...
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Naturalisation: A Passport for the Better Integration of Immigrants?
2011
This conference proceedings provides the papers presented at the OECD/European Commission joint seminar on Naturalisation and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants and their Children held in October 2010 in Brussels. It takes stock of the current knowledge regarding the links between...
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Open for Business : Migrant Entrepreneurship in OECD Countries
2010
Migrants contribute to the economic growth of their host countries in many ways, bringing new skills and competencies … with them and helping to reduce labour shortages. An aspect that has received only limited attention up to now is migrants … growth and job creation. In addition, increasing awareness of the positive role that migrants can play as entrepreneurs could …
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The High Cost of Low Educational Performance : The Long-run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes
2010
This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation. The report also...
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