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The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
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The academic progress of Hispanic immigrants
Hull, Marie - 2015
Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show little change in their relative position over the same time frame. Distinguishing Hispanic students...
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The effect of foreign students on native students' outcomes in higher education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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Immigrants at new destinations : how they fare and why
Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José M. - 2010
Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...
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Creativity over time and space
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2014
native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
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Innovation, wages, and polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Su, Yaqin; Zhao, … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018
Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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