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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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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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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …
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Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial inequality of educational achievements between immigrants and …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens the skills-base. Vocational and tertiary education do not always … professional development, and ensure its equitable distribution; strengthen the work-based component of vocational training; and … ensure that tertiary education provides the right skills. Beyond education, effective re-skilling and up-skilling programmes …
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progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
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progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of uppersecondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
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As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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