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Determinants of integration and its impact on the economic success of immigrants: a case study of the Turkish community in Berlin

Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2008

Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...

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The Crisis for Young People : Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare

Green, Andy - 2017

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides...

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Structural Change and Dynamics of Labor Markets in Bangladesh

Raihan, Selim (ed.) - 2018

Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project “Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty,” sponsored by the...

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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso

Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012

We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...

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Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Skinner, Chris - 2010

We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...

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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants

Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...

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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2005

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …

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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country: identification using Chinese twins

Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - 2007

Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational … attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth …

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Does more mean better? Sibling sex composition and the link between family size and children's quality

Baez, Javier E. - 2008

the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … likely to enroll in school and about twice as likely to be held back in school. A larger family also increases the likelihood …

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