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This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects of later tracking on educational outcomes in the middle of … that the estimated effects of later tracking are positive for the lower quantiles but decrease monotonically over the …
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migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …
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primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …
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We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are … affect the educational outcomes of immigrants. We focus our attention on pre-school attendance, school tracking, the …
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We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrantstudents at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose...
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We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate … variation in the age of tracking as well as student achievement before and after potential tracking. Based on pooled data from …-biased. Our differences-in-differences estimates suggest that early tracking does not significantly affect overall migrant …
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We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate … variation in the age of tracking as well as student achievement before and after potential tracking. Based on pooled data from …-biased. Our differences-in-differences estimates suggest that early tracking does not significantly affect overall migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492327
exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
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primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345866
Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...
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