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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbühl, Maria - 2017
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
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The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration
Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - 2013
Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more...
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Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2019
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 migration is worrisome, many...
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Changes in the Forsaken Schooling and Migration Relationship in Tajikistan
Abdulloev, Ilhom - 2020
We examine how the forsaken schooling phenomenon in migration evolved over time in Tajikistan. After completing compulsory schooling at ages 16-17, young men in Tajikistan are forsaking professional education because of opportunities to migrate for higher paid low-skilled jobs in the Russian...
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Migration policy can boost PISA results: Findings from a natural experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan - 2012
Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a non-qualified only policy to one that favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of this change on the schooling outcomes of migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for...
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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK
Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018
Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK. Despite research exploring the experiences of child refugees and asylum...
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Shattered Dreams: The Economic Impact of Eliminating DACA
Ortega, Francesc; Connor, Phillip - 2024
We present a novel imputation for legal immigrant status in 2023, which identifies likely DACA recipients, and provide estimates of the short-term and long-term income losses stemming from the potential elimination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Our estimates...
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180187