This paper explores potential explanations behind the educational gap between young natives and immigrants using two … measures, negative attitudes towards immigrants and networking, which may influence natives and immigrants differently. The … that these parameters may influence high and uneducated workers as well as immigrants and natives differently, creating …

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

This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups … immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the discriminatory part vanishes completely, suggesting that … the wage difference between immigrants and natives in Austria can be to a large extent explained. Furthermore, we account …

. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …

In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a …

majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … heterogeneity both in terms of segregation and wage gaps across education levels, occupations, industries and sectors. Racial wage … decomposition techniques, this study furthermore provides evidence of large heterogeneity in returns to education and a shift in the …