Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 15,254
Cover Image
Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365649
Cover Image
Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational performance? An empirical test using cross-national PISA data.
Dronkers, Jaap - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this inaugural lecture, I will estimate the effects on language skills of two characteristics of school populations: average/share and diversity, both on the ethnic and the sociocultural dimension. I will use the cross-national PISA 206 data, for both 15-year-old native pupils and pupils with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674258
Cover Image
Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies
Aleksynska, Mariya; Tritah, Ahmed - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 229-244
This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009, we show that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702979
Cover Image
Immigration and the School System
Albornoz, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of … model of family immigration in a frame- work where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This … selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547144
Cover Image
Immigration and the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2012
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of … model of family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This … selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570902
Cover Image
Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761793
Cover Image
Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123991
Cover Image
Einkommensentwicklung im Freistaat Sachsen
Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang; Ragnitz, Joachim - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Die Studie stellt die Bruttolohn- und Tariflohnentwicklung von Arbeitnehmern in der Privatwirtschaft und Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst seit der Wiedervereinigung gegenüber. Dabei werden auch Sonderleistungen (wie Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeld, Überstundenzuschläge usw.), flexible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399674
Cover Image
Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401713
Cover Image
Returns to Foreign Education: Yet Another But Different Cross Country Analysis
Gruetter, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822298