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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 … yet affected by the change in the migration policy, with the PISA 2009 test. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis … more fully consider differences in national migration policies when assessing the success of migrant integration. …

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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...

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Keeping in touch: a benefit of public holidays

Merz, Joachim; Osberg, Lars - 2006

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...

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Long-run labour market effects of individual sports activities

Lechner, Michael - 2008

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...

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Work out or out of work: the labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sport activities

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010

This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field experiment job applicants were randomly given different information about their type and level...

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With or without you: Divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time

Tabasso, Domenico - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...

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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual?s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …

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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection,and High School Graduation in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …

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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …

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