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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
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Education policies and migration across European countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906254
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Immigration and the neighborhood
Saiz, Albert (contributor); Wachter, Susan M. (contributor) - 2006
What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have … the number of new immigrants in a neighborhood using lagged densities of the foreign-born in surrounding neighborhoods …
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Immigration and the neighborhood
Saiz, Albert; Wachter, Susan M. - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 169-188
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Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 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...
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Neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696034
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Where the streets have a name : income comparisons in the US
Brodeur, Abel; Fleche, Sarah - 2013
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...
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