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This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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In 1980, seven out of the seventeen Spanish regions were devolved education spending responsibility. Using a difference …
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This paper provides evidence on the long run relationship between European settlers presence and education levels in … massive funds allocated to the <p> education sector post-war; (2) the role of the market via migration; (3) social interaction … effects whereby natives progressively adopted education and fertility norms of the settlers. …
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This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for economic development, the Neoclassical...
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