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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018 - This version, August 29, 2018
their countries of origin. This phenomenon is even more pronounced for parental education. It is demonstrated that the …
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 8, pp. 1-14
education. It is demonstrated that individual human capital influences short-run integration outcomes in Germany. The paper …
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility
Yum, Minchul - 2016
This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists across generations through multiple channels. My model...
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - 2012
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues … include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable … diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent …
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320080
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390948
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414973