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The effect of immigrant concentration in schools on native and immigrant children's reading and math skills
Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1503-1515
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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU
Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010
This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328
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Immigrant selection in the OECD
Belot, Michèle V. K.; Hatton, Timothy J. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 4, pp. 1105-1128
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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Educational mismatches for second generation migrants : an analysis of applied science graduates in the Netherlands
Falcke, Swantje; Meng, Christoph; Nollen, Romy - 2016
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...
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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
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