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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy

Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …

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Anticipated children and educational investment : evidence from the one-child policy in China

Raiber, Eva - 2021

Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria...

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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2019 - This version: August 12, 2019

Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground – the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is...

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Determinants of Romanian international migrants' remittances

Goschin, Zizi; Roman, Monica; Popa, Aura - 2011

In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in remittances of international migrants, as their strong recent increase shed more light on the effects at both micro and macro level. The remittances not only contribute to the well-being of the receiving households, but are also a large...

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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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Introduction: Fertility and Social Inequalities in Migrant Populations: a Look at the Roles of Selection, Context of Reception, and Employment

Milewski, Nadja; Adserà, Alicia - In: Journal of International Migration and Integration 24 (2022) Suppl 1, pp. 1-21

This paper is the introduction to the Special Issue on "Fertility and social inequalities in migrant populations." The … three large questions. Six papers explore the role of time and sequencing in migrant fertility, in relation to both period … migrants' fertility behavior. Four papers focus into how regional variation in the receiving contexts shapes fertility behavior …

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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 35-48

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The long-run effect of Mexican immigration on crime in US cities : evidence from variation in Mexican fertility rates

Chalfin, Aaron - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 220-225

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level: Migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native...

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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender

Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 54 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two-step estimation procedure, where we detect a significant...

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