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Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program
Gerdes, Christer - 2010
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of … opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which … obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper explores changes in the immigrant population in Danish municipalities …
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Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes: Evidence from Sweden's large scale voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2012
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283935
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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … concentration of immigrants affect the subjective well-being of the German-born population. Our results suggest the existence of a … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287659
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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287680
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Do immigrants take the jobs of native workers?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, … - 2009
In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271242
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School Choice and Quality
Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - 2003
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian population covering 24 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261561
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Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...
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Does public information about school quality lead to flight from low-achieving schools?
Friesen, Jane; Javdani, Mohsen; Woodcock, Simon - 2009
We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is revealed. In general, parents respond to information soon...
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Do significant immigrant inflows create negative education impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina public school system
Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2012
Language Learners in the student population for students between fourth and eighth grade over the period from 1999 to 2006 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282411
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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