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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 - 2008

immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source countries, we illustrate the important role of distance, both … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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The Importance of School Systems : Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...

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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes - 2014

In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German …-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring … immigrants' children substantially. This disparity is largest when conditioning on the language spoken at home, and prevails even …

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Labor Policies and Capital Mobility in Theory and in EMU

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2014

“Race-to-the-bottom” deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern...

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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016

Even before the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis and ongoing European debt crisis, much attention has been given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC...

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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The Efficiency of Educational Production : A Comparison of the Nordic Countries with Other OECD Countries

Bogetoft, Peter - 2015

Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...

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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2021

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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