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enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …
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enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808470
enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764966
that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to …
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In the case of France, we analyse the changes in the wage value of each education level and the impact of parents’ education and income upon the education attainment of children, sons and daughters. We find a critical decline in the skill premium of the Baccalauréat (‘bac’) in relation to...
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … the school starting age imply that those who start school at the age of seven do better on competency tests than those … children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …
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Using World Bank estimates of intergenerational educational persistence and mobility for multiple across the development spectrum, this paper finds that economic freedom noticeably improves educational mobility. This is probably because economic freedom increases the returns to education in ways...
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In this paper, we examine the ethnic effect on the intergenerational educational mobility in France. We show that second generation immigrants are more likely to attain high level of education than the French natives when their parents hold low or intermediate levels of education, and less...
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Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …
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