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Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - In: Economics of education review 85 (2021), pp. 1-14

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The international transferability of immigrants' human capital

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of education review 28 (2009) 2, pp. 162-169

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Education and skill mismatches among immigrants : the impact of host language proficiency

Budría, Santiago; Ibarreta, Carlos Martínez de - In: Economics of education review 84 (2021), pp. 1-18

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

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How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …

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Decomposing financial inequality across U.S. higher education institutions

Cheslock, John J.; Shamekhi, Yahya - In: Economics of education review 78 (2020), pp. 1-12

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School district consolidation in North Carolina : impacts on school composition and finance, crime outcomes, and educational attainment

Chin, Mark J. - In: Economics of education review 95 (2023), pp. 1-12

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Gender and racial biases: Evidence from child adoption

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...

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How Chicagoan are Gary Becker's economic models of marriage?

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2009

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting...

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Spatial sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled

Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in higher house prices, this does not necessarily...

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