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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
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Local signals and the returns to foreign education
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428042
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The portability of new immigrants' human capital: Language, education and occupational matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - 2011
. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …
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The impact of multilingualism on Spanish language acquisition among immigrants in Spain
Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo - 2014
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language … skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual … is to explore the impact of speaking multiple foreign languages on host language learning for immigrants. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463425
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961829
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904270
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874641
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880453
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Wish you were here? : quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of education on attitude toward immigrants
D'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - 2015
natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … role of immigration in host societies, with a positive effect on tolerance of diversity and a positive effect on the … assessment of immigration's role in host countries. Our findings suggest that education as a policy instrument can increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488132
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Chapter 4 Immigrants and Their Schooling
Smith, James P. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 155-187). 2006
This chapter deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the US and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants compared to the native-born both contemporaneously as well as over time. These comparisons emphasize the considerable...
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