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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
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Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational performance? An empirical test using cross-national PISA data.
Dronkers, Jaap - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this inaugural lecture, I will estimate the effects on language skills of two characteristics of school populations: average/share and diversity, both on the ethnic and the sociocultural dimension. I will use the cross-national PISA 206 data, for both 15-year-old native pupils and pupils with...
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Virtual Erasmus - A new chance not only for Europe
Abramuszkinova Pavlikova, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Virtual Mobility among two or more educational institutions offers students a virtual trip abroad. There is an opportunity to acquire a number of ECTS-points at one of the foreign partner institutions or through a joint activity which are counted to the student’s degree at his/her home...
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The immigrant-native pay gap in Germany
Humpert, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose...
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Effects of residential mobility on the educational opportunity of children in a society with a centralised educational system.
Dronkers, Jaap; Vermeij, Annelies - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Research in the United States indicates that moving adversely affects children’s school performance No studies have been conducted on this subject in continental Europe yet. Unlike in the United States, most continental European societies have a national school system, which should diminish...
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Indonesian Trainees in Japanese SMEs, Capital Accumulation and Micro-Small Business Development in Indonesia: A Preliminary Study
Wempi, Saputra; Budhi, Setiawan; Erkata, Yandri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Indonesia is one of the world important suppliers of young trainees in Japan. We present a preliminary study’s result on Indonesian trainees in Japanese SMEs and their potential to develop micro-small business in Indonesia. This paper utilizes three step approaches. First, an online survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835848
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Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment from India
Prakash, Nishith; Howard, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their occupational choice. We utilize multiple logit models to estimate the effect of the policy on the choice between a high, middle, or low-skill public sector occupation during the...
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Bulgaria - Country Study on International Skilled Migration
Beleva, Iskra; Kotzeva, Mariana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
as “not exorbitant by any means” (August Gachter, Bulgarian Emigration and Immigration, June 2001) compared to that in … interaction and access to new ideas and achievements prove to be important for the decision to emigrate. Immigration policies of … framework of immigration and strengthening the control on the illegal inflow into the labour market have been major policy …
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Productivity in innovation: the role of inventor connections and mobility
Favaro, Donata; Ninka, Eniel; Turvani, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study the transmission of knowledge arising from working relationships established by inventors, and its impact on firms’ innovation production. The study’s contribution to the literature is twofold. First, we consider those relationships that originate through inventor connections...
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Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem
Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The asylum seekers who choose the level of investment in the host-country-specific human capital, and the government of the host country that chooses the probability of naturalization are modeled as optimizing economic agents in a setting not of their choosing.
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