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Population Change and Changing Educational Attainment of Ethnic Groups in the United States, 1980–2000

Wilson, Franklin; Rebhun, Uzi; Rivas, Salvador - In: Population Research and Policy Review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 639-659

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Ketkar, Suhas L.; Dora, Manoj K. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 330-344

Developing countries' ability to issue diaspora bonds depends upon the wealth of their diaspora. We use the New Immigrants Survey data to determine the wealth accumulation and assets diversification of recent immigrants to the USA from different regions of the world. Our quantile (median)...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education’s impact. Moreover, observable …

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Testing Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching

Siow, Aloysius - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

In a static frictionless transferable utilities bilateral matching market with systematic and idiosyncratic payoffs, supermodularity of the match output function implies a strong form of positive assortative matching: The equilibrium matching distribution has all positive local log odd ratios or...

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Education and economic growth in the United States: cross-national applications for an intra-national path analysis

Baldwin, Norman; Borrelli, Stephen - In: Policy Sciences 41 (2008) 3, pp. 183-204

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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

of education between immigrants and their children. On average, the children of immigrants have educational levels … residence, the children of immigrants outperform the 3rd-and-higher generation in educational attainment. Parental education and … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …

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GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS, EDUCATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING: ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN COMPARISON WITH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 2000-2007

Guisan, M.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 9 (2009) 1

Accounting Index and Government Effectiveness Index, and 3) Educational indicators, including public education expenditure per … of indicators are highly correlated in several ways, due to the important positive effects of education on economic …

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Financing Higher Education in the United States

Tulip, Peter - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

America’s higher education system is among the best in the world. Nevertheless, there is scope for improvement. In … particular, there appear to be substantial financial barriers to higher education despite large government expenditures aimed at …

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Primary and Secondary Education in the United States

Tulip, Peter; Wurzburg, Gregory - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

through upper secondary education. That said, there are a number of areas in which improvements could be made. Though the …

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Poverty among minorities in the United States: Explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos

Gradin, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008

The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among minorities are, however, the result of different combinations...

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