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, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
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understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income …
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In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina … displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem … children and significant inertia in intergenerational transfer of human capital. Our findings highlight the need for policies …
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We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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generation. However, the results are driven by individuals whose both parents were expellees and by the higher end of the …
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We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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The number of refugees has increased worldwide, and about half of them are children and youth. These refugee children … for specific policies to address their needs. Yet, the long-term effect of refugee status on newcomer children's economic … systemic barriers for newcomer children, beyond refugees. Such findings challenge the commonly held notion of refugees as a …
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