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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054559
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169071
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161723
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Do significant immigrant inflows create negative education impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina public school system
Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2012
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states. Given the perceived … academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282411
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Migrants at school: educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269090
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507364
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Immigrants' time use: A survey of methods and evidence
Ribar, David C. - 2012
This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290004
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Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264969
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PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes
Entorf, Horst; Minoiu, Nicoleta - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261789
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to … the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental … that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273967