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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility
Piacentini, Mario - 2009
participation, and, ultimately, affect the socio-economic mobility of the rural born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208026
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The second dividend of studying abroad : the impact of international student mobility on academic performance
Meya, Johannes; Suntheim, Katharina - 2014
, propensity score matching is applied to account for possible self-selection into international mobility. Our empirical analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408494
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The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139954
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Obstacles on the road to school: the impacts of mobility restrictions on educational performance
Miaari, Sami H.; Lee, Ines - 2020
This paper examines the impact of mobility restrictions on educational performance in the West Bank over 2000 …-2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259298
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Health professionals wanted: Chain mobility across European countries
Mara, Isilda - 2020
This study analyses recent trends in the mobility of health professionals in Europe. It first identifies the drivers of … this mobility, then analysis its main push-and-pull factors, and finally shows how different European countries are … affected by these recent movements of health professionals. Our analysis focuses specifically on the patterns of mobility among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262802
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Health professionals wanted : chain mobility across European countries
Mara, Isilda - 2020
This study analyses recent trends in the mobility of health professionals in Europe. It first identifies the drivers of … this mobility, then analysis its main push-and-pull factors, and finally shows how different European countries are … affected by these recent movements of health professionals. Our analysis focuses specifically on the patterns of mobility among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232876
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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis
Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011
After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302741
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Public-sector outsourcing : the desirability of outsourcing the provision of public services depends on their characteristics and market conditions
Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually lower, but quality problems can affect services like health care and residential youth care. Consumer choice has stimulated innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419395
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Student mobility across schools and its links to under-achievement
Dixon, Sylvia Claire - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888239
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Migration, school attainment and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan
Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003442504