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The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China … ageing, policy practices and measures, organization, finances and manpower resources to promote healthy ageing in China. Up … drawn with respect to conditions of healthy ageing in China and about the state policy in this regard. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479231
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Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession
Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2015
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307448
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The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis
Edwards, Ryan; Ortega, Francesc - 2016
This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584681
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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education
Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398353
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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives
Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2015
students. We offer some suggestions for policies that might help mitigate the negative consequences of immigration outlined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481668
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The Economic Effects of Providing Legal Status to DREAMers
Ortega, Francesc; Edwards, Ryan; Hsin, Amy - 2018
This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration reforms aimed at legalizing undocumented individuals that entered the United States as children and completed high school: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the DREAM Act. The former offers only temporary legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816553
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Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation
Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all … the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying for their students irrespective of their study place. On average …, approximately half of the students who had left their home canton in order to study, return to their home canton, and about half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816621
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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout: A Review of Theoretical Approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141237
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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education
Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812509
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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives
Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
students. We offer some suggestions for policies that might help mitigate the negative consequences of immigration outlined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143942