countries (i.e., the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia/New Zealand) to the United States. Comparisons with the native born are …

of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …) highlighting thereby the different patterns found by immigrant group and achievement measure. -- Education ; educational …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …

We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education … prolonged and more general education lead to a reduction in property crime, but no significant decrease in violent crime. The …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …