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School density and inequality in student achievement
De la Roca, Jorge; Thiemann, Petra - 2024
In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent … city-size gradient in test score inequality. Assortativeness is strongest in the high-income neighborhoods of large cities. …
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Can political inequalities be educated away? Evidence from a Swedish school reform
Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Dawes, Christopher T. - 2014
recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464473
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280747
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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development
Galor, Oded - 2011
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 paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284077
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The Covid-19 pandemic spurred growth in automation: What does this mean for minority workers?
Broady, Kristen; Booth Bell, Darlene; Barr, Anthony; … - 2023
interact with preexisting structural issues around racial inequality. This analysis updates that of a 2021 Brookings paper by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480645
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Cultural Gender Norms and Neighbourhood Exposure: Impacts on the Gender Gap in Math
Ericsson, Sanna - 2020
This paper investigates the interaction between cultural norms and neighbourhood characteristics. I estimate the effect of cultural gender norms on the gender gap in math, and explore whether this effect is mitigated by municipality gender equality. I use high-quality Swedish administrative data...
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Analyzing educational achievement differences between second-generation immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes S. - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282503
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Relations between immigration and adult skills: Findings based on PIAAC
Lind, Patrik; Mellander, Erik - 2016
The international survey of adult skills, PIAAC, records large differences in numeracy and literacy skills between immigrants and non-immigrants. We examine how these differences relate to the countries' average skills and skill rankings. Immigrants are defined by country of birth or in terms of...
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The value of earning for learning: Performance bonuses in immigrant language training
Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2012
We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...
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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation
Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013
heterogeneity, in overeducation, in returns to education and in birth-country coefficients, unexplained by wage models. Both the non … than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for natives. Comparison …
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