Residents in rural China doubt the benefits from education, yet there is empirical evidence supporting positive effects … in urban and rural areas. This paper investigates whether education affects a variety of income attainment indicators for … households in rural China, using a household survey from the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning. The analysis estimates education …

. We find modest adverse education effects among both immigrants and natives. These effects do not carry over to the labor …We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labor market outcomes of … immigrants and natives. Our identification strategy builds on the one-sided tipping point model, which predicts that neighborhood …

immigrants and natives in Sweden - how the method can be applied to correct any measure of segregation for differences between …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

the employed. On the other hand, an increased concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods significantly increases … increased visibility of immigrants in Europe, not the rise of unemployment rates per se, that has been associated with recent …

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups … of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of … immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and …

is more connected. Lump sum transfers to immigrants can hinder cultural integration. These findings are in line with …

that education and experience appear to have a strong effect on earnings in the long run and that an ethnic group can …

common among the more vulnerable sub-populations of new-immigrants, disabled individuals, Israeli-Arabs, foreign-workers and …