Showing 1 - 10 of 165
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838239
The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824576
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306849
influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388259
We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally … immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals’ beliefs about the need for immigrants’ cultural assimilation. Empirical … national identity, first, exhibits a robustly negative effect on the strength of individual preferences in favor of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657191
We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish … behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting patterns within Sweden’s largest commuting zone. We find that newly … arrived immigrants file fewer deductions than natives, that immigrants with a longer duration of stay in the host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018267
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans … instrumental variable approach that deals with the possibly endogenous allocation of immigrants and allows for causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052802
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261752
We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534443
natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier evidence consistent with son preference in that having a female … bargaining power. In contrast, some evidence for son preference in fertility persists among immigrants. Immigrant families that … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179747