Showing 1 - 10 of 9,753
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318896
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309274
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780276
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058712
The growing occurrence and significance of labour migration from Bangladesh has become an important area of interest in … cross border movements within irregular migration. This study has attempted to understand the gaps and challenges of … existing policies and practices that influence regular and irregular labour migration processes from the source country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092289
This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany … to be higher than that for actual years of education. In the case of correctly matched workers who have the 'typical …' education in a certain occupation, there is no additional reward in earnings for natives compared to foreign workers. Immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669315
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
influenced by the performance of other adolescents in the neighbourhood. -- neighborhood effects on education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310967
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317623
second generation immigrants is mainly explained by differences in their education; education is also an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074239