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Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of … opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which … obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper explores changes in the immigrant population in Danish municipalities …
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This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent- school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
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/metropolitan area residents and those on a low income. In contrast, residents of small to medium-sized centers of population, high …
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This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283575
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283935
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335967
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270531
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … concentration of immigrants affect the subjective well-being of the German-born population. Our results suggest the existence of a … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market …
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …
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In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
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