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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children?s education translates into earnings …

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Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2010

We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over the lifecycle. Our data is drawn from...

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Ethnic Minority Immigrants and their Children in Britain

Dustmann, Christian; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2006

According to the 2001 UK Census ethnic minority groups account for 4.6 million or 7.9 percent of the total UK population. The 2001 British Labour Force Survey indicates that the descendants of Britain's ethnic minority immigrants form an important part of the British population (2.8 percent) and...

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Migration and Education

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many dimensions. Education and skill acquisition play an important role … educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those who migrate or their …

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Teenage truancy, part-time working and wages

Dustmann, Christian - In: Journal of population economics 10 (1997) 4, pp. 425-442

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The effects of education, parental background and ethnic concentration on language

Dustmann, Christian - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 37 (1997), pp. 245-262

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Class Size, Education, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; van Soest, Arthur - 2021

school level, has a sizeable and significant effect on the decision to remain in full time education beyond the minimum age …

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Educational Achievement of Second Generation Immigrants: An International Comparison

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Lanzara, Gianadrea - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper investigates the educational achievements of second generation immigrants in several OECD countries in a comparative perspective. We first show that the educational achievement (measured as test scores in PISA achievement tests) of children of immigrants is quite heterogeneous across...

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Chapter 4. Migration and Education

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 4, (pp. 327-439). 2011

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent . Migration and … education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many dimensions. Education and skill acquisition play an important role … the educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those who migrate or …

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Ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain

Dustmann, Christian; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2008

This paper investigates educational attainment and economic behaviour of ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain. Despite their strong educational achievements, ethnic minority immigrants and their descendants exhibit lower employment probabilities than their white native born...

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