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The effect of parents' employment on childen's educational attainment
Ermisch, John - 2000
parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …
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Intergenerational social mobility and assortative mating in Britain
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2002
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The income portfolio of immigrants in Germany : effects of ethnic origin and assimilation or: who gains from income re-distribution?
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2000
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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
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New evidence on classroom computers and pupil learning
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
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