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Vietnam's extraordinary performance in the PISA assessment : a cultural explanation of an education paradox

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Perera, Liyanage Devangi H.; … - 2020

This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International … a centralized education system. We first document 'Vietnam advantage' in a wide-range of supply and demand …'t explain away Vietnam's positive deviance in PISA when compared to other participating developing and developed countries. We …

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Human trafficking in Southeast Asia : results from a pilot project in Vietnam

Dinh, Ngan; Hughes, Conor; Hughes, James W.; … - 2014

statistically useful data. In this paper we present the results of a pilot study run in rural Vietnam with the aim of overcoming …

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Long-term effects of forced migration

Sarvimäki, Matti; Uusitalo, Roope; Jäntti, Markus - 2009

We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire population living in these areas in the remaining parts...

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Crime and immigration : evidence from large immigrant waves

Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen; Fasani, Francesco - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We consider possible crime effects from two large waves...

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Intergenerational transfer of human capital under post-war distress : the displaced and the Roma in the former Yugoslavia

Kahanec, Martin; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been...

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Measuring immigration's effects on labor demand: a reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift

Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor); … - 2007

It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. One adjustment process that has received scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the...

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Civil wars beyond their borders : the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees

Baez, Javier E. (contributor) - 2008

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...

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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2005

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Reducing income transfers to refugee immigrants : does starthelp help you start?

Rosholm, Michael (contributor); Vejlin, Rune M. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...

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Employment integration of refugees : the influence of local factors on refugee job opportunities in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter (contributor); … - 2007

"This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in contrast to most studies on immigrant economic integration primarily conducted on the national level or for the larger cities. The data used in the analysis is on male and...

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