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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national … empirical results imply that for students with a migration background a key for catching up is the language spoken at home. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297318
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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261974
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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262232
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Bildung als Mittel sozialen Aufstiegs? Zum Zusammenhang von Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bildungsbeteiligung von Migranten
Schwarz, Alexandra; Weishaupt, Horst - 2012
characteristics of migration and ethnicity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291079
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Laufbahnklassen: zur empirischen Umsetzung eines dynamisierten Klassenbegriffs mithilfe von Sequenzanalysen
Groh-Samberg, Olaf; Hertel, Florian R. - 2011
Mit dem von Bourdieu entlehnten Begriff der Laufbahnklassen entwickelt der Beitrag ein dynamisiertes Verständnis sozialer Klassenzugehörigkeit im Lebensverlauf, das neben der Existenz stabiler Klassenzugehörigkeiten auch typische Aufstiegs- und Abstiegsmobilitäten als eigenständige...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601016
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Does non-farm income diversivication in Northern Albania offer an escape from rural poverty?
Meyer, Wiebke; Möllers, Judith; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - 2008
structure, migration patterns, attitudes towards and reasons for income diversification into the non-farm sector. Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299313
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Globalization and human capital formation
Andersson, Frederik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. Closed economies suffer from a holdup problem of excessive redistribution, and governments use education policy as a second-best tool. Globalization that increases labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307013
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A socio-economic picture of Kosovar migrants and their origin farm households
Möllers, Judith; Meyer, Wiebke; Xhema, Sherif; … - 2013
with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as …-economic features of three migration waves. Individual demographic characteristics of the migrant are analysed as well as economic … features including the income situation and the remitting behaviour. We furthermore discuss the nature of migration - if it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331329
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Zur landesspezifischen Erfassung des Migrationshintergrunds in der Schulstatistik - (k)ein gemeinsamer Nenner in Sicht?
Kemper, Thomas - 2016
Der Beitrag gibt Auskunft über den Stand der Erfassung von Migration in den amtlichen Schulstatistiken der Bundesländer … migration background will be presented and differentiated by the specific definition of migration background in the federal … federal school statistics into a national school statistic. Based on the available migration attributes the educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622179
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Integration von Geflüchteten und die Rolle der Aufnahmegesellschaft: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und ihre Anwendung auf ländliche Räume
Glorius, Birgit; Bürer, Miriam; Schneider, Hanne - 2019
Dieses Working Paper thematisiert die Einstellungen der Aufnahmegesellschaft als wichtige Komponente des Integrationsverlaufs von Zugewanderten. Derzeit dominieren in der Betrachtung von Einstellungen gegenüber Zuwanderung Annahmen, die die Ablehnung von 'Fremden' stützen und empirisch...
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