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participation, and, ultimately, affect the socio-economic mobility of the rural born …
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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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investigate this, we estimate the effects of location characteristics and the average effect of geographical mobility on the … unemployment. Second, on average, geographical mobility had large, positive effects on the job finding rate, suggesting that either …
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incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match …, this increase in size masks an important composition effect. There is a large native flight away from public schools that … is offset by the large inflow of immigrant children into public schools. Secondly, we predict a large reduction in the …
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incentivize them to move to private schools where there are fewer immigrant students. In this article, I attempt to extend our … and secondary schools in Arizona would be higher by approximately 1.1 and 1.7 percentage points, respectively, in the …
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In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
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In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and … cohorts within schools and drawing special attention to time trends, the analysis shows that migrant students suffer from …-over effects are particularly strong between students from the same area of origin, indicating that peer groups in schools form …
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We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...
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In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113092