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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023
The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...
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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021
results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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Early-life circumstances and racial disparities in cognition for older Americans : the importance of educational quality and experiences
Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024
.2% of the disparities in cognitive score and 48.6% in cognitive impairment. Notably, school racial segregation (all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557724
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Constrained school choice in Egypt
Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017
This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach that combines survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. Some private and religious schools exist, but we find that in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120881
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Inequality of opportunity in education : accounting for the contributions of sibs, schools and sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these two factors separately. This paper considers them...
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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...
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Social security expansion and neighborhood cohesion : evidence from community-living older adults in China
Bradley, Elizabeth H.; Chen, Xi; Tang, Gaojie - 2020
Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149120
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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Social rejection, family acceptance, economic recession and physical and mental health of sexual minorities
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
Utilizing two panel datasets covering the periods 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the study examines whether social rejection, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association...
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The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021
find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic … minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610752