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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

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Math scores in high stakes grades

Brunello, Giorgio; Kiss, David - 2019

We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …

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Educational attainment: analysis by immigrant generation

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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"For one more year with you" : changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2007

inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …

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Education and earnings growth : evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

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