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-processing skills, educational attainment and labour market outcomes among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Similar to previous literature … surprisingly, there is a positive relationship between these information-processing skills and wages. However, the returns to … skills are very similar for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, that is, we find no evidence of economic discrimination …
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positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from … are the first to show group discussion improves student life satisfaction and noncognitive skills, and thereby likely …
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We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the …
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We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the …
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Non-English Speaking, Backgrounds relative to the native-born population in Australia. Based on nine years of longitudinal …
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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …-education, occupational downgrading, and (self-reported) use of skills for male immigrants, who account for about 75% of the sample, while …
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We provide first evidence on the relationship between cognitive abilities and earnings in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Study. The estimates suggest that mechanics abilities are positively related to wages of West German workers, even when educational attainment...
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Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older ages contribute to this development. By use of event-study methods and data from the USA, England and several countries in Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks...
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This paper provides new evidence of the short and long-run effects of vocational training (VT) on labor market and educational outcomes, with a particular interest in how school quality may confound estimates. VT schools may differ from regular schools not only in terms of type of training, but...
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noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The benefits do not apply to girls, however, unless they attend all … not affect life satisfaction, noncognitive skills, nor test scores. We conclude that teaching practices – group discussion …
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