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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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This paper is concerned with analyzing the occupational status of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the mid-19th century to help fill a gap in the literature. It does this by using the 1/100 microdata sample from the 1850 Census of Population, the first census to ask occupation....
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subsequent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related education and labour market outcomes. Using three …, female students enrolled in higher secondary education have 9 percentage points lower probability than male students to study …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even …
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, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers’ region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …
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This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing …'s education from ages 5 to 15. Significant gaps in test scores and parental investment are found between children from lower and …
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underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County …
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We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the...
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education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students … are more likely to end their education early and repeat grades, especially in Spain, Germany and Italy. The distribution …
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aid nonlinearly in the level of development of origin countries, in a U-shaped fashion, where only the downward segment …
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