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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136434
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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants
de Palo, Domenico; Faini, Riccardo; Venturini, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long …
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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labour Market Behaviour
Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper analyses transitions into and out of three different labour market states: social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish...
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Using a large Australian social survey, combined with precise data on neighbourhood characteristics, I explore the factors that affect trust at a local level (‘localised trust’) and at a national level (‘generalised trust’). Trust is positively associated with the respondent’s...
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Immigrant Selection in The OECD
Belot, Michèle; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration. In this paper we examine the proportions of highly educated among …
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …
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