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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …
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This paper uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to … correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … the 5th to the 95th percentile in the public school TVA distribution would increase mean student test scores by 0 …
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