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school-grades with a higher share of migrant students, while natives are not affected on average. These negative spill … migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after … primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Three decades ago, most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …
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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …
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1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an …
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