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economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …
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on the specific content of an education policy, "more education" can thus have opposite effects on migration. …This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii …) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We …
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Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …
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Diese Studie analysiert den Bildungserfolg und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von jungen Migranten aus der ehemaligen … Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren … Bildungserfolg als Einheimische haben. Innerhalb der Gruppe der Migranten aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion sind jüdische Migranten …
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This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
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This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702309
held constant, faster earnings growth for low-entry-earnings immigrants is found empirically even when age and education …
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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
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effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country … to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment …
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