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The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s EthnicMinorities
Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linkedtest score records to document the evolution of attainment through school fordifferent ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First,we show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all...
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Ancestry versus Ethnicity : The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their ethnicity (or Hispanic origin) and their ancestry. We investigate whether different patterns of responses to these questions reflect varying degrees of ethnic...
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Intergenerational Transmission ofLanguage Capital and Economic Outcomes
Casey, Teresa; Dustmann, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
language deficiencies on the economic performance of secondgeneration immigrants... …
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FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT:EVIDENCE FROM RANDOMIZED TRIALS
Fryer, Roland G. - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010
to output are not effective. Relativeto popular education reforms of the past few decades, student incentives based on …
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Fachliche Zusammensetzung von Bildungsportfolios:Empirische Analyse eines Risk-Return Trade-Offs
Hammen, Anke - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
Nicht nur der höchste berufsqualifizierende Abschluss – wie oft angenommen – sondern der gesamte Bildungspfad wirkt sich auf den Erfolg im weiteren Erwerbsleben aus. Im Projekt wird die individuelle Zusammensetzung von Bildungskarrieren und deren Auswirkungen im Erwerbsverlauf untersucht....
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Management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation: An international comparison
Schwalbach, Joachim; Brenner, Steffen - Institut für Management <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> - 2001
This paper deals with the relationship between management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation.
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The Economic Determinants of Truancy
Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school ageyouth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as thesolution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive currentreturns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model isestimated using a US...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants´ Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower levels of education, limited English skills, and less social capital[...] …This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in … the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on …
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip; Wachter, Till von; Heisz, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States : Hysteresis or Structural?
Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the presence of a structural break at unknown date[...]
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