The present study was focused on determining the educational status and factors affecting the education of children of the families working in the mining region of Karauli District of Rajasthan, India. In this blended method research, a total of 384 children students of class XI of 8 government...

The study empirically examines the causes of poor academic performance of the students in the native area, Ward 6, enrolled at Gokomere High School, Matova Secondary School, St Stanslous Secondary School and Chidzikwe Secondary School using Ordinary Least Squares approach for a sample of 200...

COVID-19 impacted various aspects of public post-secondary education, yet there is a lack of both mixed evaluation of that impact in Arizona high schools. According to Arizona State Senator Christine Marsh, there is currently no disaggregated data for Arizona high school class sizes that...

Educational integration of children with migration background is an important issue in the social sciences. Few studies exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify institutional conditions of the education system that...

Using PIRLS 2001 and PISA 2003 data for Germany, this paper examines whether secondgeneration immigrants and girls are graded worse in math than comparable natives and boys, respectively. Once all grading-relevant characteristics, namely math skills and oral participation, are accounted for,...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants,...

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...

Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, minority graduation rates increased by 4.35...

This paper analyses the performance of migrants on the German labour market and its dependence on the tasks performed on their jobs. Recent work suggests quantifying the imperfect substitutability relationship between migrants and natives as a measure for the hurdles migrants have to face. Our...