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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan - 2023
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
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Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration
Gardner, John - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45
During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has largely been overlooked in the literature. In this...
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From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration
Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Soumyajit; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were...
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Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement
Craig, Ashley C; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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Microeconometric Analyses on Determinants of Individual Labour Market Outcomes
Simon, Lisa K. - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019191
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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283938
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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290727
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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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The economic progress of American Jewry: from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
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