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Migration and forsaken schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-27

Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries-the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan-are facing a for-saken schooling...

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Arbeitsmigration in Zentralasien: Kinder profitieren nicht von Geldüberweisungen

Kröger, Antje Elisabeth - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 6, pp. 11-17

In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...

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Remittances, education and health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amega, Komla - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-27

This study investigates the effects of remittances on education and health outcomes using a 5-year interval data on 46 … Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 1975 to 2014. Employing system GMM, remittances were found to significantly …

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Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults

Heisig, Jan Paul; Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Social Science Research 83 (2019), pp. 1-20

homogeneous. Third, country differences in skills transparency seem to be the primary mediating channel for the inequality …

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Introduction: How do families matter in helping young people find work?

Nazio, Tiziana; Gábos, András - In: Youth Employment: STYLE Handbook, (pp. 179-182). 2017

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Racial and gender pay disparities: The role of education

Budig, Michelle J.; Lim, Misun; Hodges, Melissa J. - In: Social Science Research 98 (2021), pp. --

We investigate whether white women, black women, and black men earn less than white men because of 1) lower educational attainment and/or 2) lower wage returns to the same levels and academic fields of attainment. Using the 1979–2012 waves of the American National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...

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The impact of education on household income in rural Vietnam

In: International Journal of Financial Studies 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-9

was found to increase household income, it increases income inequality in rural Vietnam. Our research findings suggest … that improving the access of poor households to better education is expected to increase their income and reduce inequality …

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Inequality and Students' PISA 2018 Performance: a Cross-Country Study

Mazurek, Jiri; Fernández García, Carlos; Pérez … - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 24 (2021) 3, pp. 163-183

indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students' PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender … inequality index was the single most statistically significant explanatory variable for both OECD and non-OECD countries …

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The transformations of the French labor market, 2000–2021

Askenazy, Philippe - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)

(less than a week) and low-income independent contractors, which together have fueled earnings inequality. …

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Selbst wenn Privatschulen in der Nähe sind: Sozial benachteiligte Schüler*innen sind dort kaum vertreten

Helbig, Marcel; Schmitz, Laura; Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW Wochenbericht 89 (2022) 51/52, pp. 683-690

Die Zahl der Privatschüler*innen steigt in Deutschland stetig, insbesondere in Ostdeutschland. Besonders häufig kommen sie aus Haushalten mit hohem Einkommen und hohem Bildungsniveau. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche Rolle die räumliche Verteilung von Privatschulen für die Struktur...

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