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Sex-differences in language and socio-emotional skills in early childhood
Bando Grana, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521201
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630835
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Are all automation-resistant skills rewarded? : linguistic skills in the US labour market
Ubalde, Josep; Alarcón, Amado - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 31 (2020) 3, pp. 403-424
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287393
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Sex-differences in language and socio-emotional skills : evidence from large scale studies of very young children
Bando Grana, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572301
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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732074
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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774695
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The evolution of perceptions of competency in the literature
Kęsy, Marcin; Antoniewicz, Aleksander - In: European research studies 26 (2023) 4, pp. 660-679
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533160
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342692
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The role of mathematical and verbal skills on the returns to graduate and professional education
Song, Moohoun (contributor); Orazem, Peter F. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728269
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The economics of language : an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729415