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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2011

We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...

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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Helland, Eric - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2011

After the JD (AJD) study to compare standard Blinder-Oaxaca measures of earnings discrimination to self-reported measures of … that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … believe they have experienced on the job. Statistical earnings discrimination is only occasionally related to increases in …

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Do Non-cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2010

This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...

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